APES Unit 5

Depletion time

(I,II, and III)

A form of water pollution coming from the rainwater carrying toxins out of mines and mine wastes is known as:

Acid Mine Drainage

What zone has hot, partly melted rock which can be deformed by heat and pressure allowing plate movement?

Aesthenosphere

One big enviro problem with smelting is:

Air pollution

One way farmers can help to reduce soil erosion is using soil conservation methods. Which of the following is an example of soil conservation method?

Alley Cropping

What destroys mangrove systems and estuaries to provide space needed?

Aquacultures

The new technology of in-situ mining using bacteria to extract lower grade ore is also known as:

Biomining

What is an example of sedimentary rock?

Bituminous Coal

What is not an example of alternatives to the use of pesticides?

Boomerang Effect

A method of using biological control to pests is to:

Bring in natural enemies such as predators, parasites, and bacteria

Even with enough calories, chronic malnutrition can lead to...

Compromised mental development Increased susceptibility to nonfatal infectious disease Stunted growth (I, II, and III)

Which of the following statements about harvesting minerals from the ocean is true?

Continental Shelf is a source of sand, gravel, phosphates, and platinum

Tectonic plates move slowly across the asthenosphere on:

Convection Currents

After growing a carb-rich grain that uses soil nitrogen immediately growing a nitrogen-fixing plant like alum to protect and rejuvenate the topsoil

Cover Crops

One way to successfully incorporate genetic engineering is to:

Cross a crop plant with a native variety

Gold is obtained from areas containing low concentrations through the process of:

Cyanide leeching of crushed rock

A chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide that biomagnifies in the food chain and caused the decline of bird populations as published by Rachel Carson in "silent spring"

DDTs

North American and Eurasian plates are moving apart from one another and creating the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This is an example of what type of plate boundary?

Divergent

Many crops are now being engineered so that pests do not eat them, they are called:

GMO's

Finding substitutes for mineral resources will:

Help to keep supplies of resources sustainable

Characteristics associated with advantages of aquaculture would include which of the following?

High yield in a small volume of water Low use of fossil fuel sources (I and II Only)

Forms when magma cools and hardens

Igneous

Dangerous strains of disease organisms can develop from which of the following agricultural practice?

Incorporating antibiotics into the feeding regimens of densely population livestock

The layers of soil in which most of the humus and soil organisms are contained...

Leaf litter and topsoil (I and II only)

What layer surrounds the core and mostly solid rock?

Mantle

Forms when preexisting rock is subjected to high temperatures, pressure, or chemicals

Metamorphic

Forms when pre-existing rock is exposed to high heat and pressures

Metamorphic Rock

Convergent boundaries between two continental plates produce

Mountain Ranges

Industrialized meat production has harmful enviro consequences, except:

Natural control of pests

What type of formation would you expect to find at a divergent plate boundary in the ocean?

Oceanic Ridges (III Only)

DDT was a very effective pesticide, however, it remained in the environment for years, known as

Persistance

Which of the following would be a disadvantage to using pesticides?

Pesticides can bioaccumulate up the food chain

The weathering of rocks from wind, water, and thermal expansion is known as:

Physical Weathering

Growing crops between rows of trees

Plantation Farming

Which of the following practices would be a way that a farmer could grow crops organically?

Planting crops at times when the bugs are not around to eat them

Which of the following substitutes for mineral resources still requires a heavy use of oil and other fossil fuels?

Plastics

The factor that indicates the greatest cause of malnutrition and hunger is:

Poverty

When a mineral reduces becomes scarce its

Price rises

One of the most commonly mined nonmetals used to make glass, bricks, and concrete is:

Sand

When a mineral resource is too deep to be surfaced mined, a technique known as this is used.

Subsurface mining

A more sustainable form of meat production is:

Switch to poultry and farm raised fish

Which of the following techniques helps to limit erosion?

Terracing

Which statement concerning soil erosion is incorrect?

The loss of tops; increases the soils ability to store nutrients

Which of the following is true of farm-raised salmon?

They are often infected with parasites and sea lice

Which of the following is the correct listing of the three food sources that provide more than half the worlds caloric intake?

Wheat, rice, and corn

Raising fish in underwater pens is one way to solve the overharvesting problem, known as:

aquaculture

The goal of integrated pest management is to:

utilize biological, chemical, and cultivation techniques, in a coordinated way to eliminate pest species