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Environmental Science, 15e (Enger)
Chapter 2 Environmental Ethics
1) Which one of the following choices involves an ethical decision?
- A) Deciding to buy the cheaper of two similar items.
- B) Determining which one of two pieces of art is the best.
- C) Deciding whether or not to allow trophy hunting of elephants because the money trophy hunters pay provided income and food for local people.
- D) All of these are correct.
Answer: C
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2) Biocentrism and ecocentrism differ in that
- A) ecocentrism includes both the living things and their interactions in decision making.
- B) ecocentrism is focused on the uses we make of plants and animals.
- C) ecocentrism is primarily concerned with preserving the places where endangered species live.
- D) None of the statements is correct.
Answer: A
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3) A position that forests should be managed for the lumber that can be obtained from them is an example of
- A) biocentrism.
- B) anthropocentrism.
- C) ecocentrism.
- D) None of the statements is correct.
Answer: B
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4) Which naturalist stated that regulated hunting can maintain a proper balance of wildlife?
- A) Rachel Carson
- B) Lewis Thomas
- C) Aldo Leopold
- D) John Muir
Answer: C
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5) When making ethical decisions about environmental issues it is important to
- A) consider the opinions of all stakeholders.
- B) recognize that organisms and ecosystems may have rights.
- C) consider how local decisions may affect distant environments.
- D) All of the options involve ethical decisions.
Answer: D
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6) Which naturalist was fascinated by the countryside around Concord, Massachusetts and wrote of his experiences living close with nature?
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) Lewis Thomas
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: A
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7) What is the name of the theory which suggests that the environment has direct rights and qualifies for moral personhood?
- A) environmental justice
- B) resource exploitation
- C) ecocentrism
- D) comprehensive environmental response
Answer: C
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8) To get around the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 many oil carriers
- A) use lightly regulated oil barges pulled by tugboats.
- B) have constructed pipelines under the ocean floor.
- C) have increased the use of supertankers.
- D) use unregulated foreign cruise ships.
Answer: A
Section: 02.06
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9) Industries pollute because
- A) manufacturing consumes energy and produces waste.
- B) they want to cut costs and increase profits.
- C) proper waste disposal is too costly.
- D) All of these are correct.
Answer: D
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10) Which of the following pairs of approaches to environmental ethics is logically consistent?
- A) development and ecocentrism
- B) preservation and anthropocentrism
- C) conservation and anthropocentrism
- D) sustainable development and biocentrism
Answer: C
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11) Which of the following books cites the danger of pesticides to food, wildlife, and humans?
- A) Sand County Almanac
- B) Walden
- C) Silent Spring
- D) Nature
Answer: C
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12) In 1994, delegates from around the world gathered for the Conference on Population and Development. Representatives from developing countries protested that
- A) a baby born in the United States will consume 20 times the resources in its lifetime as an African or Indian baby.
- B) overpopulation is a bigger environmental problem than overconsumption.
- C) the United States consumes 90% of the world’s resources.
- D) China has the highest population and consumes 90% of the world’s resources.
Answer: A
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13) World food production has doubled in the last 40 years because of
- A) diseases, world trade, and new sources of water.
- B) fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yielding varieties.
- C) genetic modifications, DNA fingerprinting, and international treaties.
- D) organic farming practices, erosion control, and farm labor.
Answer: B
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14) What percent of the earth’s water is undrinkable?
- A) 1%
- B) 25%
- C) 55%
- D) 87%
- E) 99%
Answer: E
Section: 02.08
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15) Much of the credit for increases in “faith-based” environmentalism can go to the:
- A) National Religious Department of Education (NRDE)
- B) National Religious Partnership for the Earth (NRPE)
- C) National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE)
- D) National Religious Parents for the Environment (NRPE)
Answer: C
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16) Who was NOT a notable 19th century conservationist philosopher?
- A) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- B) John Muir
- C) Aldo Leopold
- D) Rachel Bilson
Answer: D
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17) Sustainable development is often defined as “meeting the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.” Sustainable development is much like:
- A) conservationism.
- B) environmental pragmatism.
- C) preservationism.
- D) ecocentrism.
Answer: A
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Which of the following best matches the description?
18) Believed that “wilderness mirrors divinity, nourishes humanity, and vivifies the spirit.”
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: J
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19) Predominant feeling of a culture concerning ethical issues.
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) Preservation approach
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) Development approach
- E) Conservation approach
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: L
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20) Author of Walden, which describes a year in which he lived in direct contact with nature.
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: A
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21) Stresses a balance between resource use and resource availability.
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: E
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22) Stresses recycling of waste resources rather than discarding them.
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: H
Section: 02.06
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23) Early critic of rampant economic development and the “invasion of nature by trade.”
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: F
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24) The view that a healthy relationship with the environment relies upon a spiritual oneness with the earth.
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: N
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25) Nature has intrinsic value or inherent worth apart from human appropriation.
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: B
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26) Wrote Silent Spring, which dramatized the danger of pesticides to wildlife and humans.
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: C
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27) Founded the field of game management and wrote A Sand County Almanac.
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: G
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28) Assumes that the human race is the master of nature and that the earth’s resources exist for our benefit.
- A) Henry David Thoreau
- B) preservation ethic
- C) Rachel Carson
- D) development ethic
- E) conservation ethic
- F) Ralph Waldo Emerson
- G) Aldo Leopold
- H) industrial ecology
- J) John Muir
- K) ethics
- L) morals
- M) environmental justice
- N) deep ecology
Answer: D
Section: 02.03
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29) The CERES Principles are a set of environmental standards that businesses may adopt voluntarily.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 02.06
Topic: Corporate Environmental Ethics
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30) Growth, expansion, and domination remain the central sociocultural objectives of most advanced societies.
Answer: TRUE
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31) Industrial ecology is the study of laws which are designed to protect the health of human beings and their environment.
Answer: FALSE
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32) The environmental justice movement emerged from the opposition of a PCB landfill in Warren County, North Carolina.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 02.04
Topic: Environmental Justice
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33) Environmental justice is a law that allows cities, states, or individuals the right to sue companies for contamination of water supplies.
Answer: FALSE
Section: 02.04
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34) Thomas Malthus was an ecologist that declared in his book The Population Time Bomb that worldwide famine was inevitable when human population growth exceeded food production.
Answer: FALSE
Section: 02.08
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35) Motivated by the Exxon Valdez oil spill, environmentalists formed the CERES group which created a set of ten environmental standards by which business practices could be measured.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 02.06
Topic: Corporate Environmental Ethics
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36) In ecocentrism, it is suggested that the environment itself, not just living organisms that inhabit it, has moral worth.
Answer: TRUE
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37) Biocentrism is not considered when looking at life-centered environmental ethics.
Answer: FALSE
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38) Environmental aesthetics is the study of how to appreciate beauty in the natural world.
Answer: TRUE
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39) Environmental pragmatism is an approach that focuses on ethics rather than policy.
Answer: FALSE
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40) Aldo Leopold published his thoughts on land-use ethics in A Sand County Almanac.
Answer: TRUE
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41) Sustainable development is a term first used in a U.S. sponsored document called the “Brundtland Report” in 1987.
Answer: FALSE
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42) Anthropocentrism is a philosophy of environmental responsibility that focuses primarily on human interests.
Answer: TRUE
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43) Some 135,000 congregations—counting Catholic parishes, synagogues, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches and evangelic congregations—have been provided with resource kits on environmental issues.
Answer: TRUE
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44) Evangelical Christians, known for their conservative stand on most issues, are becoming green.
Answer: TRUE
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45) In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which dramatized the potential dangers of ________ to food, wildlife, and humans and eventually led to changes in the United States on their use.
Answer: pesticides
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46) Environmental justice is:
- A) Related to laws passed by Congress in the early 1900s.
- B) Directed only at wild nature.
- C) Not linked to community based organizations.
- D) The social justice expression of environmental ethics.
Answer: D
Section: 02.04
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47) Environmental justice encompasses a wide range of issues including:
- A) Safe housing.
- B) Lead poisoning.
- C) Water quality.
- D) Transportation.
- E) Safe housing, Lead poisoning, Water Quality and Transportation.
Answer: E
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48) The birthplace of the environmental justice movement was in:
- A) Detroit, Michigan
- B) Washington, DC
- C) Warren County, North Carolina
- D) New York City
- E) Boston, MA
Answer: C
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49) North Americans account for about 5% of the world’s population but consume:
- A) 10 percent of the world’s oil.
- B) 5 percent of the world’s oil.
- C) 15 percent of the world’s oil.
- D) 22 percent of the world’s oil.
Answer: A
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50) Natural capitalism is:
- A) The idea that businesses can both expand their profits and take good care of the environment.
- B) Businesses can only expand their profits by not taking care of environmental concerns.
- C) Business profits are more important than environmental concerns.
- D) Environmental concerns are more important than business profits.
Answer: A
Section: 02.07
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51) Much of the current environmental crisis is rooted in:
- A) The development of environmental laws.
- B) The increase in environmental justice concern.
- C) The widening gap between rich and poor nations.
- D) The narrowing of the gap between rich and poor nations.
Answer: C
Section: 02.11
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Environmental Science, 15e (Enger)
Chapter 4 Interrelated Scientific Principles
1) The scientific method is
- A) reliable.
- B) impartial.
- C) limited in when it can be used.
- D) All of these are correct.
Answer: D
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2) Scientists distinguish between situations that are merely correlated and those that are correlated and show
- A) relationships.
- B) cause-and-effect relationships.
- C) cause-and-relation.
- D) None of these are correct.
Answer: B
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3) Communication is a central characteristic of the
- A) scientific method.
- B) material conference.
- C) scientific action.
- D) All of these are correct.
Answer: A
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4) Pseudoscience
- A) is a deceptive practice.
- B) utilizes appearance and language of science.
- C) is misleading.
- D) All of these are correct.
Answer: D
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5) Repeatability in an experiment is important because
- A) it eliminates bias.
- B) independent investigators must be able to get the same results.
- C) it helps to support the initial hypothesis.
- D) only independent investigators must be able to get the same results and it helps to support the initial hypothesis.
- E) All of these are correct.
Answer: E
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6) The scientific method is the process that scientists use to
- A) evaluate student learning.
- B) rigorously test the solutions to new questions.
- C) study a crime scene.
- D) photograph human behavior.
Answer: B
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7) Some of the steps followed in the scientific method include:
- A) write a dissertation and present the information at a scientific conference.
- B) analyze historical events and offer your opinion of the key findings.
- C) observation, formulate and test a hypothesis, compare results to others and publish.
- D) interview many people about their reaction to current events.
Answer: C
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8) Scientists usually experiment by collecting data
- A) from as large a sample as possible.
- B) from one source only.
- C) from their relatives.
- D) only from other researchers and comparing their results.
Answer: A
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9) “Matter” is made up of
- A) atoms.
- B) proteins.
- C) bases.
- D) pseudo electrons.
Answer: A
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10) Which of the following is NOT an inorganic household chemical?
- A) ammonia
- B) salt
- C) vinegar
- D) lye
Answer: C
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11) The position of an element in the Periodic Table tells you
- A) whether it is organic or inorganic.
- B) the number and position of the parts of the atom.
- C) the amount of potential energy of the atom.
- D) whether it is used in photosynthesis or respiration.
Answer: B
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12) Gasoline engines are
- A) less efficient than diesel engines.
- B) more efficient than diesel engines.
- C) more likely to last longer than diesel engines.
- D) 58% more efficient than hybrid engines.
Answer: A
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13) Which of the following light sources is the most efficient?
- A) incandescent
- B) LED
- C) candle
- D) sodium vapor
Answer: C
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14) The energy released as water flows downhill from behind a dam is an example of
- A) kinetic energy.
- B) hydroxyl ion formation.
- C) activation energy.
- D) potential energy.
Answer: A
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15) When energy is converted from one form to another, the loss of energy is usually in the form of
- A) water.
- B) fluorescent light.
- C) heat.
- D) radioactivity.
Answer: C
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16) Which of the following small molecules are converted to form sugar in photosynthesis?
- A) oxygen and water
- B) hydroxyl ion and hydrogen
- C) carbon dioxide and oxygen
- D) water and carbon dioxide
Answer: D
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17) What does it mean when a solution has a low pH number?
- A) It is a base.
- B) It is a catalyst.
- C) It is an acid.
- D) It has a high number of hydroxyl ions.
Answer: C
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18) What is the fundamental subunit of matter?
- A) molecule
- B) compound
- C) mixture
- D) atom
Answer: D
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19) The second law of thermodynamics states that
- A) energy is the ability to do work.
- B) useful energy is lost when converting from one form of energy to another.
- C) energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
- D) all energy is either kinetic or potential.
Answer: B
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20) Which of the following is released as a result of respiration?
- A) energy for growth and reproduction
- B) fats, sugars, and proteins
- C) oxygen
- D) chlorine ions
Answer: A
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21) The nucleus of an atom contains
- A) only electrons.
- B) electrons and protons.
- C) only protons.
- D) protons and neutrons.
Answer: D
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22) The heat that is transferred from a hot object to your hand is known as
- A) sensible heat.
- B) latent heat.
- C) entropy.
- D) kinetic energy.
Answer: A
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23) The heat energy used to cause liquid water to evaporate from your skin is called
- A) sensible heat.
- B) combustion.
- C) evapotranspiration.
- D) latent heat.
Answer: D
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24) Energy that cannot be used to do useful work is referred to as
- A) potential energy.
- B) entropy.
- C) kinetic energy.
- D) enzymatic energy.
Answer: B
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25) Reproducibility is an important part of the scientific method and means that
- A) other scientists are able to repeat the experiment and obtain similar results.
- B) scientists show all the calculations in their work.
- C) scientists have an idea that they are testing.
- D) a control group is always used.
Answer: A
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26) In order to discern whether or not a product is green you should look for
- A) statements about the use of recycled materials.
- B) evidence of a company’s commitment to making and marketing a green product.
- C) a list of actual ingredients and their sources following a statement of using all natural ingredients.
- D) All of these are correct.
Answer: D
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Which of the following best matches the description?
27) Burning of fuel to obtain heat.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: G
Section: 04.06
Topic: Energy
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28) Central region of an atom.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: P
Section: 04.04
Topic: Atomic Structure
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29) Process whereby plants convert inorganic materials into organic matter.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: E
Section: 04.04
Topic: Chemistry
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30) Negatively charged particle of an atom.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: L
Section: 04.04
Topic: Atomic Structure
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31) Compound with a high number of hydroxyl ions or high pH.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: J
Section: 04.04
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32) Process whereby organisms break down large molecules to obtain energy.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: A
Section: 04.04
Topic: Chemistry
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33) Molecule or atom which has lost or gained an electron.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: D
Section: 04.04
Topic: Matter
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34) The energy contained by moving objects, such as running water.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: O
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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35) Number used as a measure of hydrogen ion concentration.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: B
Section: 04.04
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36) Positively charged particle of an atom.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: K
Section: 04.04
Topic: Atomic Structure
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37) Protein molecule that speeds up the rate of a reaction.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: C
Section: 04.04
Topic: Chemistry
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38) Compound with a low number of hydroxyl ions or low pH.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: F
Section: 04.04
Topic: Chemistry
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39) Uncharged particle of an atom.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: N
Section: 04.04
Topic: Atomic Structure
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40) The energy matter has because of its position.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: H
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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41) Energy that cannot be used to do useful work.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: Q
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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42) Atoms of the same element that have a different number of neutrons.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: M
Section: 04.04
Topic: Atomic Structure
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43) Heat energy that is used to change matter from a solid to liquid or gas.
- A) respiration
- B) pH
- C) enzyme
- D) ion
- E) photosynthesis
- F) acid
- G) combustion
- H) potential energy
- J) base
- K) proton
- L) electron
- M) isotope
- N) neutron
- O) kinetic energy
- P) nucleus
- Q) entropy
- R) latent heat
Answer: R
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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44) Ocean water has low energy quality because there is a relatively small temperature difference between it and the objects to be heated.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 04.06
Topic: Energy
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45) Damming water changes its quantity and not its quality.
Answer: FALSE
Section: 04.06
Topic: Energy
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46) The release of chemical energy from food is analogous to the burning of fossil fuel.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 04.06
Topic: Energy
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47) An acid is an ionic compound that releases hydroxyl ions.
Answer: FALSE
Section: 04.04
Topic: Chemistry
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48) Photosynthesis is the process whereby animals break down large molecules such as sugars into smaller molecules.
Answer: FALSE
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Topic: Chemistry
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49) The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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50) Potential energy is the energy contained by moving objects.
Answer: FALSE
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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51) The fundamental unit of matter is the sugar molecule.
Answer: FALSE
Section: 04.04
Topic: Matter
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52) Chemical bonds are physical attractions between atoms resulting from the interaction of their electrons.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 04.04
Topic: Chemistry
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53) Scientific opinions are always factual.
Answer: FALSE
Section: 04.01
Topic: Science
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54) Chemistry is extremely important in discussions of environmental problems.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 04.04
Topic: Chemistry
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55) The second law of thermodynamics states that whenever energy is converted from one form to another, some of the useful energy is lost.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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56) It takes very little energy to change water from a liquid to a vapor.
Answer: FALSE
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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57) With pseudoscience, deceptive practices may unintentionally confuse and/or mislead people into thinking that something has scientific validity when it does not.
Answer: FALSE
Section: 04.03
Topic: Science
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58) An acid is any compound that accepts hydrogen ions (protons) in a solution.
Answer: FALSE
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Topic: Chemistry
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59) Matter may be solid, liquid, or gas, depending on the amount of kinetic energy contained by the molecules.
Answer: TRUE
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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60) Energy can be created and or destroyed with unlimited potential.
Answer: FALSE
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61) Pollution from wood stoves is a particular concern in the winter when:
- A) Temperatures are low
- B) There is significant snowfall
- C) Temperature inversions limit air movement
- D) Ice buildups can limit air movement
Answer: C
Section: 04.00
Topic: Environmental Issues
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62) The Elwha River is located in what state?
- A) Oregon
- B) California
- C) Maine
- D) Washington
Answer: D
Section: 04.06
Topic: Environmental Issues
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63) Many of the processes that occur in the natural world involve interactions between matter and:
- A) Airflow
- B) Energy
- C) Space
- D) Time
Answer: B
Section: 04.05
Topic: Energy
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64) The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that wood stoves are responsible for ________ percent of the deadliest air pollutant particles emitted in the United States?
- A) 5%
- B) 25%
- C) 50%
- D) 95%
Answer: A
Section: 04.00
Topic: Pollution
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