Deck 13: Energy and the Environment

Question 1

Warming that occurs because the sun's heat is trapped in the atmosphere by carbon dioxide and other gases is

A) the ozone effect.
B) the greenhouse effect.
C) the chief cause of acid rain.
D) the major cause of the "China Syndrome."

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The Environmental Protection Agency was created to reorganize the federal bureaucracy to consolidate responsibility for all of the following except

A) water pollution.
B) air pollution.
C) solid-waste management.
D) energy efficiency.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

It is accurate to state that

A) water is cleaner today than it was twenty-five years ago.
B) air is dirtier than it was twenty-five years ago.
C) the air is dirtier but water is cleaner than it was twenty-five years ago.
D) both the air and water are dirtier today than twenty-five years ago.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Transportation consumes about what percent of U.S.energy consumption?

A) 10
B) 30
C) 50
D) 70

Question 5

The most common way to measure water pollution is the

A) use of the hydro-toxic barometer.
B) use of the safe-water-interval calculator.
C) use of biochemical oxygen demand measurements.
D) water barometer.

Question 6

Nuclear power plants in the U.S.cluster in

A) the Northwest.
B) the Southwest.
C) eastern states.
D) western states.

Question 7

An "externality" occurs when

A) environmentalists protest.
B) pollution is controlled by bringing in outside people and technology.
C) a firm imposes unwanted costs on others.
D) the economy is weak.

Question 8

theory requires that environmental policies be evaluated in terms of their net benefits to society.

A) Elite
B) Group
C) Public-choice
D) Institutional

Question 9

Which of these is NOT a common method for disposing of solid wastes?

A) landfills
B) incineration
C) recycling
D) reduction

Question 10

The cleanest form of energy production is

A) electric power.
B) electric-gas hybrid engines.
C) nuclear power.
D) clean-burning methanol and ethanol.

Question 11

About

A) 10 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 30 percent
D) 40 percent

Question 12

Most of our electricity is generated using

A) oil.
B) nuclear fuel.
C) natural gas.
D) coal.

Question 13

The Cancun Conference established the

A) first international standards for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
B) UN Panel on Climate Change.
C) Green Climate Fund.
D) World Bank.

Question 14

The Kyoto Protocol, unlike the Rio Treaty it amended, called for

A) legally binding limits on emissions.
B) increased use of nuclear energy.
C) remedies to address global warming.
D) international cooperation.

Question 15

The Rio Treaty

A) allows for increased emissions for the United States.
B) was never ratified by the United States.
C) was ratified but only after a long fight in Congress.
D) did not enjoy the support of the Clinton-Gore administration.

Question 16

In the cap and trade program, industries would trade

A) emission allowances.
B) tax penalties.
C) facilities.
D) labor forces

Question 17

Pollution is a type of externality.

Question 18

The federal agency that has the authority to protect endangered species is the

A) U.S. Endangered Species Agency.
B) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
C) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
D) Council on Environmental Quality.

Question 19

The most important source of air pollutants is

A) oil refining.
B) manufacturers of paper products.
C) the electrical power companies.
D) motor vehicles.

Question 20

The Comprehensive Environmental Response Act of 1980 targets what kind of environmental hazards?

A) old sites
B) nuclear waste
C) water pollution
D) carbon dioxide emissions

Question 21

The Kyoto Protocol was rejected by the U.S.

Question 22

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 focused on carbon dioxide emissions.

Question 23

Removing lead from gasoline was brought about by the EPA.

Question 24

Manufacturing is the main source of water pollution in the U.S.

Question 25

Power plants are the leading contributor to atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Question 26

All three of the methods of disposing of solid wastes use landfills.

Question 27

The cap and trade program gives the federal government greater control over carbon emissions.

Question 28

Producing electricity accounts for about 40% of energy use in the U.S.

Question 29

Nuclear power plants in the U.S.are being built at the rate of about twenty per decade.