Question 1

Briefly explain the problems of global water access and water sanitation.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Briefly explain the problems of global water...

Question 2

Briefly discuss the major climate regions of the world.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Briefly discuss the major climate regions of...

Question 3

Tropical forests are NOT well-suited for intensive agriculture because

Accepted Answer

A) the excessive amount of rainfall in the region tends to prohibit effective plant growth. 
B) available nutrients are stored in tropical forest vegetation, so when the ground cover and trees are removed, the nutrients are removed, too. 
C) the ground layer of vegetation in tropical forests is so thick that the land is extremely difficult to clear. 
D) the temperatures in tropical forests are too high to allow feasible crop production. 
E) they tend to be located too far inland.

Question 4

Which of the following statements regarding the production of greenhouse gases is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

A) China's annual GHG emissions now surpass those of the United States. 
B) Russia produces the highest amounts of greenhouse gases. 
C) India produces the same amount of greenhouse gases per capita as the United States. 
D) Brazil ranks second only to France in its production of greenhouse gases. 
E) All of the answer choices are correct.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A) pork 
B) sugar 
C) lamb 
D) bananas 
E) beef

Question 6

What is the major source of carbon dioxide?

Accepted Answer

A) aerosol sprays and refrigerants 
B) by-product of cattle and sheep digestion 
C) burning fossil fuels 
D) widespread use of chemical fertilizers in agriculture 
E) burning associated with rainforest clearing

Question 7

As a general rule, the atmosphere cools by 3.5°F for every 1,000 feet gained in elevation. This is called

Accepted Answer

A) the environmental lapse rate. 
B) the subsolar point. 
C) the rate of condensation. 
D) orographic effect. 
E) the rain shadow effect.

Question 8

According to plate tectonics theory, large ________ circulate molten rock in different directions within Earth's mantle.

Accepted Answer

A) waves 
B) convection cells 
C) conductive cells 
D) magnetic cells 
E) subduction cells

Question 9

A standard scheme, called the ________, devised in the early twentieth century, is used to describe the world's diverse climates.

Accepted Answer

A) Vön Thunen model 
B) Zelinsky's classification 
C) Baron la Salle's model's 
D) Alfred Wagener's system 
E) Köppen system

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) the greenhouse effect. 
B) thermal inversion. 
C) solar heating. 
D) climate change. 
E) subduction.

Question 11

Tropical rainforest canopies are generally

Accepted Answer

A) a two-layer canopy that is thickest in its upper layer and thin in its lower layer. 
B) a two-layer canopy that is thickest in its lower layer and thin in its upper layer. 
C) dense tropical forest vegetation usually arrayed in three distinct levels that are adapted to increasing amounts of sunlight, from the treetops to the darker forest floor. 
D) dense tropical forest vegetation usually arrayed in three distinct levels that are adapted to decreasing amounts of sunlight, from the treetops to the darker forest floor. 
E) a one-layer canopy.

Question 12

What are the major causes and effects of climate change?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What are the major causes and effects...

Question 13

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.

Accepted Answer

A) carbon inequity 
B) carbon sequestration 
C) social justice 
D) economic rationalism 
E) rational equity

Question 14

What is weather?

Accepted Answer

A) local areas that possess extreme temperature variability over extended periods of time 
B) the long-term condition of the Earth's atmosphere at a given location 
C) the atmospheric conditions that are responsible for the formation of regions such as deserts 
D) the short-term day-to-day expression of atmospheric processes 
E) monthly average precipitation and temperature

Question 15

Incoming short-wave solar energy is called

Accepted Answer

A) the greenhouse effect. 
B) solar intensity. 
C) differential heating. 
D) insolation. 
E) orographic effect.

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT a significant greenhouse gas?

Accepted Answer

A) carbon dioxide 
B) methane 
C) chlorofluorocarbons 
D) molecular nitrogen 
E) nitrous oxide

Question 17

This bioregion is associated with the widespread temperate C climate, where precipitation falls year-round in amounts of 30-60 inches, summers are warm, and winters are cold, yet no month averages below freezing.

Accepted Answer

A) Temperate Deciduous Forest 
B) Evergreen 
C) Mediterranean Shrub and Woodland 
D) Tropical Rainforest 
E) Tropical Savanna

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A) the uppermost layer of the soil. 
B) the bottommost layer of the soil. 
C) a layer that is approximately one meter below the surface. 
D) the decaying vegetative material that has fallen on the rainforest floor. 
E) the living plants.

Question 19

Divergent plate boundaries tend to be found

Accepted Answer

A) near continents. 
B) deep in the middle of the oceans. 
C) underneath continents. 
D) near the North and South poles. 
E) where the Earth's crust is the oldest.

Question 20

What region of the world experiences the highest water stress?

Accepted Answer

A) North America 
B) South America 
C) Northern Africa 
D) Russia 
E) Northern Europe

Exam 2: Physical Geography and the Environment