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WS 4 Quiz Due: 11:59pm on Monday, February 19, 2024 You will receive no credit for items you complete after the assignment is due. Grading Policy Chapter 10 Multiple-Choice Question 15 Part A PCB contamination ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 10 Multiple-Choice Question 17 Part A The book Our Stolen Future was important because it ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 10 Multiple-Choice Question 25 Part A DDT, DDE, PCBs and PBDEs are all ________. ANSWER: is the main focus of the book Silent Spring results from overapplication of pesticides is a continuing problem because PCBs are non-biodegradable and persist in the environment has never been documented outside the U.S. was the main environmental problem in Lake Apopka focused on the impacts of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on humans is credited with starting the environmental movement in the U.S. was the first book that discussed environmental problems with DDT was the first book that discussed water pollution problems in Lake Apopka was the first book to dispute claims in Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring

Correct Chapter 10 Multiple-Choice Question 29 Part A According to the Precautionary Principle we should ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 10 Multiple-Choice Question 30 Part A Louis Guillette is most famous for his studies ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 10 Multiple-Choice Question 31 biodegradable and do not persist in the environment approved for use as pesticides by the EPA teratogens toxic at the organism level but not at the ecosystem level non-biodegradable and subject to bioaccumulation and/or bioamplification restrict any chemical that shows any sign of toxicity until it is proven safe halt the manufacture and use of synthetic chemicals do extensive government scientific testing before restricting a chemical for use levy large fines against companies that manufacture toxic substances allow industry to do their own research to determine if a chemical is safe describing reproductive and developmental abnormalities in alligators in Lake Apopka on gonadal abnormalities in frogs about the dangers of DDT on neurological effects of pesticide poisoning about the dangers of second-hand smoke

Part A Tyrone Hayes is most famous for his studies ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 10 Multiple-Choice Question 32 Part A Infectious disease accounts for ________% of deaths globally. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 10 Multiple-Choice Question 36 Part A Studies of endocrine disruptors have shown that they are closely associated with all of the following except ________. ANSWER: Correct on neurological effects of pesticide poisoning about the dangers of second-hand smoke about the dangers of DDT describing abnormalities in alligators in Lake Apopka on gonadal abnormalities in frogs 30 40 25 almost 50 less than 1 thyroid hormone abnormalities male feminization gonadal abnormalities lung cancer low birth rates

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Chapter 10 Multiple-Choice Question 37 Part A Natural occurring biological hazards to people are ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 15 Part A Most coltan ore is mined in ________, but purified and marketed in ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 16 Part A The focus of the 2001 enquiry of the U.N. General Assembly into coltan mining in Congo was ________. ANSWER: crude oil seeps and radon gas viruses and Salmonella phthlates and bispnenol-A carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas DDT and DDE Congo ; developed nations in North America and Europe Canada ; the U.S. South Africa ; Congo South America ; South Africa the U.S.; Europe

Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 20 Part A As in the mining of coltan in Congo, coal mining in Appalachia has produced issues of ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 19 Part A Heavy landscape damage and water pollution have occurred in ________ as a result of ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 21 environmental and social justice for the Congolese diverting 30% of the profits from coltan into U.N. agencies like USESCO and FAO controlling the high price of the ore charged by the Congolese government allowing more western nations to benefit from the importation of coltan stopping the mining and sale of coltan to western nations economic prosperity for local residents, but high prices for everyone else black market activity for stolen and poached minerals environmental damage and social and economic justice job losses, air pollution industrial smog Canada; subsurface mining for oil sands Florida; open pit mining of limestone Mississippi; strip mining for uranium San Francisco; placer mining for gold Appalachia; mountaintop removal mining for coal

Part A The U.S. Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 requires ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 22 Part A The U.S. General Mining Act of 1872, although encouraging of the domestic mining industry, also ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 23 Part A The dwindling supplies of rare strategic metals such as indium, tantalum, and platinum may be extended if we rigorously ________. ANSWER: Correct 20% of sales revenues to be donated to national park maintenance restoration of the identical ecosystem and biodiversity present before mining began no remediation of water pollution, except in the case of uranium mining all mined minerals to be processed and sold only within the U.S. mining companies to post bonds to cover restoration of mined areas before permits are granted has pollution and remediation clauses that are too strict gives away resources located on public land almost for free and is subject to fraudulent claims has allowed mining in urban centers with dense commercial development makes mining unprofitable except for the largest corporations opens mining rights to foreign nations which stake claims on U.S. land relax environmental requirements for mining recycle existing supplies scour the earth for new deposits increase demand for the products in which they are used reduce demands for social and economic justice

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Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 24 Part A The earth's mantle ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 26 Part A The relationship between recycling, economics, and energy consumption is demonstrated in the case of aluminum, where ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 30 Part A A new process for removing heavy metals and acid sulfate pollution from mine leachate water is ________. ANSWER: is located in Pangaea surrounds the core as a thick, elastic rock formation is formed by plate boundaries is the outermost part of the earth's crust is composed of molten metals all of the metal recycling industries inn the U.S. went bankrupt by 2009 new cheap mining technologies and huge newly discovered aluminum deposits have made recycling unprofitable It costs more than ten times as much to produce items from recycled aluminum than from virgin ore 95% of the energy expended to mine and produce items from virgin ore is saved by recycling the U.S. failure to recycle aluminum has caused energy to be lost in mining new ore

Correct Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 10 Part A Precipitation that falls on Earth's surface ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 12 Part A An artesian well occurs when ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 13 deep-well injection sulfate-reducing bacteria filtration and sedimentation treatment with chlorine or ozone surface impoundments is usually already unusable because of acid rain is mostly taken up by plants or other organisms mostly runs off into salt marshes or the ocean may take a variety of pathways through surface water or groundwater flow almost entirely filters down into the underground aquifers granite is overlain by a sandy substrate, allowing percolation into the aquifer an aquifer is trapped under pressure between two layers that are less permeable there are several aquifers that have merged a waterbearing porous layer of rock, sand, or gravel has accumulated groundwater over a long period of time a well is dug through layers of sand and gravel into the water table

Part A Humans use freshwater primarily for ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 16 Part A Dam removal in this country ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 18 Part A Why was the irrigation of Soviet cotton farming operations a problem? ANSWER: Correct mining and industrial processes electrical production washing and home use agricultural irrigation drinking and cooking will probably increase rapidly as we move to a more fossil-fuel-dependent society will probably continue because the environmental impacts of dams are reviewed periodically will assist with our transition to more natural forms of renewable energy provides many new jobs and opportunities and so is economically beneficial is controversial because dams provide such good habitats for native species It drained the Aral Sea and increased the salt content of soils. There was governmental opposition that limited water access, killing crops. It angered local resort communities, which did not want farming in the region. Irrigation water came from rivers feeding into one of the largest lakes on Earth and resulted in major contamination of that source. It was, for the most part, not a problem.

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Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 19 Part A Water in the surface zone of the ocean is, for the most part ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 23 Part A Pathogens and waterborne diseases enter drinking water supplies from ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 24 Part A You want to maintain a healthy pond at your school site. Last year another pond became eutrophic; to avoid that, you want to ________. ANSWER: the coldest the densest well-mixed depleted of oxygen the saltiest poorly treated wastewater or from feed lots pesticides entering groundwater upwelling excess nitrogen and phosphorus as agricultural runoff oil and chemical spills

Correct Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 25 Part A The "blue-baby" syndrome that suffocates infants is a consequence of excess ________ in the water supply. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 12 Multiple-Choice Question 26 Part A The primary effect of thermal pollution on aquatic ecosystems is ________. ANSWER: Correct Chapter 11 Multiple-Choice Question 34 increase the ozone in the littoral zone provide nitrogen for good nutrient mixing in the benthic zone avoid increasing phosphorus runoff into the limnetic zone increase the carbon-based fertilizers in the littoral zone decrease the calcium available in the profundal zone carbon phosphates E. coli chlorine nitrates depleting dissolved oxygen increased evaporation lowering the water table causing a large increase in plant productivity lowering the pH of the water

Part A When magma or lava cools, the result is ________. ANSWER: Correct Score Summary: Your score on this assignment is 99.2%. You received 29.75 out of a possible total of 30 points. sedimentary rock subduction weathering and deposition igneous rock metamorphic rock

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