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Sample Exam 2 1) Favironmental monitoring and subsequent clean-up of the large spill in Peru occurred in or included; 1) Roadside sails 5) All of the above 2) Roads 6) 1+2 3) Streams and rivers 7) 14+2+3 4) Personal residences 2) Heap leaching is 2 method of: 1} removing impurities from coal 2) reprocessing fuel rods from nuclear reactors 3) recovering gold and copper from rocks 4) extracting oil from a reservoir 3) US energy consumption starting in the 1800s and projected through 2100 was/is/will be primarily from 1) wood - coal — oil — natural gas 2) ‘wood —~ coal — natural gas - oil 3) wood ~ oil — coal — natural gas 4) oil —coal-- natural pas 5) coal natural gas - oil 6) coal —oil -- natural gas 4) Presently the Earth’s atmosphere is dominated by which two gases? i} oxygen and carbon dioxide 2) oxygen and nitrogen 3) hydrogen and carbon dioxide 4) oxygen and argon 5) carbon dioxide and methane 6) carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide 5) The element Carbon is found in, 1) petroleum 5) Hokie stone 2) coal 6) all of the above 3) natural gas T)1+2+3 4) plants 8) 1424344 6) Present US coal use, 1) causes acid rain 2) produces more carbon dioxide when compared to the other fossil fuels 3) releases large amounts of mercury to the atmosphere 4) will likely significantly decrease in the next 5 years S142 614243 T1ta+4 8) all of the above Copyright JAC 4-04.08 7) The approximate yearly amount of petroleum used by the U.S.is_ compared to produced 1) 10 million barrels of oil (mbo) , 6 mbo 2) 100 miilion barrels of oi! (mbo), 60 mbo 3) 8 billion barrels of oil (bbo), 6 bbo 4) 8 billion barrels of oil (bbo), 2.5 bbo 5) 80 billion barrels of oil (bbo), 10 bbo 8) When incoming solar radiation is converted to heat, it is least likely to be trapped in the atmosphere by, 1) cfe’s 3) methane 2) carbon dioxide 4) nitrogen 9) CFC’s and their derivatives; 1} destroy oxygen 6)24+3 2) destroy water vapor TNZ+4 3) destroy ozone 4) are a minor contributor to observed changes in average earth temperatures 5) all of the above 10) if you were to go to two rivers in SW Virginia which were separated by a distance of less than 2 miles and river ] had a healthy biological community and river 2 was essentially void of life, you may conclude i) rainwater pH values in area of river 1 and river 2 are higher than pH values found in “natural” rainwater 2) rainwater pH values in the area of river 1 and river 2 are lower than pH values found in “natural” rainwater 3) the composition of local soils and rocks are having a large influence on the observed. pH values in the river 1 4) the composition of local soils and rocks are having @ large influence on the observed pH values in the river 2 5S} 1+3 7) 2+3 6) 1+4 8) 224 11) Carbon is found in; 1) atmosphere 5) all of the above 2) biosphere 6)14+2 3) lithosphere T14+243 4) hydrosphere 12) World oil supplies and prices are expected to be controlled over the long term by 1) Former Soviet Union 2) United States 3) Canada 4) OPEC 5) Asia 
