Exam 2: Changing Global Environment

The nutrients that are available for plant growth in tropical rainforests tend to be stored in

Petroleum is a fossil fuel.

Tropical forests are not well-suited for intensive agriculture because they tend to be located too far inland.

If climate change occurs to a significant degree,it is likely to have all of the following consequences,EXCEPT

Discuss the problems of water scarcity around the world.

Which of the following is a fossil fuel?

What is the major cause of widespread cutting of tropical rainforests?

Geologic evidence suggests that some 250 million years ago all the world's plates were tightly consolidated into a supercontinent centered on present-day Australia.

The natural process of the Earth's atmosphere heating through the trapping of reradiated infrared radiation is known as climate change.

Hydrologists predict that three-quarters of Africa's population will experience water shortages by 2025.

London,England is an anthropogenic feature.

The world's growing appetite for what food product is a leading cause of tropical deforestation?

Sea Floor Spreading is a geophysical theory that Earth is comprised of large geologic platforms,or plates,that move slowly across its surface.

Upland and mountainous areas are usually wetter than the adjacent lowland areas because of the ________ whereby rising air is cooled and loses its ability to hold moisture as it flows up and over mountains,resulting in rain and snowfall

What are the major causes and effects of climate change?

Although land and water differ in their abilities to absorb and reradiate insolation,the global arrangement of oceans and land areas is NOT a major influence on world climates.

This term refers to the position taken by developing countries such as China and India,which argue that,because Western industrial countries in North America and Europe have been burning large amounts of fossil fuels since the mid-19th century and because CO₂ stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years,these countries caused the global warming problem and therefore should fix it.

About half of the tropical forests that are lost each year are located in what part of the world?