Climate Change and Society Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the multifaceted relationship between climate change and society, examining how human activities contribute to climate change and how its impacts are distributed across different communities and regions. Students will analyze scientific foundations of climate change, social and economic vulnerabilities, policy responses, and the role of media, culture, and activism. The course encourages critical thinking about mitigation and adaptation strategies, environmental justice, and the ethical responsibilities of individuals, organizations, and governments in addressing the global challenge of climate change.
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Natural Disasters 9th Edition by Patrick Leon Abbott
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Chapter 1: Natural Disasters and the Human Population
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Q1) If a 1.2 percent annual rate of human population increase were to continue without change into the future,the volume of human flesh would about equal the volume of the Earth in less than 2,000 years from now.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) If a particular disaster has a high frequency of occurrence,then it also has a large return period (recurrence interval).
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Using the rule of 70,a population growth rate of 2% annually will result in doubling a population in 35 years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Internal Energy and Plate Tectonics
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Q1) The most famous and outspoken of the early proponents of continental drift was
A)Plato,for whom "plate tectonics" was named
B)Leonardo da Vinci
C)William Smith
D)Alfred Wegener
E)Immanuel Kant
Answer: D
Q2) The gigantic pieces of lithospheric plates diverging,sliding past,or colliding with each other are directly responsible for the vast majority of the earthquakes,volcanic eruptions,and mountains on Earth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Hot spots have active volcanoes above them on the Earth's surface and moving plates carry the volcanoes away from their hot-spot source.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Earthquake Geology and Seismology
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Q1) The two largest moment magnitudes measured to date are the 1964 Alaska earthquake (M<sub>S</sub> of 8.3;M<sub>W</sub> of 9.2)and the 1960 Chile earthquake (M<sub>S</sub> of 8.5;M<sub>W</sub> of 9.5).
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) The duration of the shaking is not a significant factor in damages suffered and lives lost.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared (32 feet per second squared),which is referred to as 1.0 g and is used as a comparative unit of measure.Earthquake accelerations have never been measured in excess of 1.0 g.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
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Q1) At depths below 100 km,subduction zone earthquakes occur almost exclusively in the interior of the colder oceanic lithosphere,the heart of the subducting slab.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Three basic classes of collisions include all but which of the following?
A)oceanic plate versus oceanic plate
B)oceanic plate versus continent-bearing plate
C)continental plate versus continental plate
D)mantle plate versus lithospheric plate
Q3) The slide-past motions of long transform faults occur in all but which of the following?
A)In the northeastern Pacific as the Queen Charlotte fault,located near a sparsely populated region of Canada.
B)Along the San Andreas Fault in California with its famous earthquakes.
C)At the southwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean where the Alpine fault cuts across the South Island of New Zealand.
D)Where the Indian subcontinent touches Asia.
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Chapter 5: Earthquakes Throughout the United States and Canada
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Q1) The biggest earthquake ever recorded instrumentally occurred on 22 May 1960 in southern Chile with a seismic moment magnitude of 9.5.
A)True
B)False
Q2) As much as 20 percent of the relative motion between the Pacific and North American plates may be accommodated by the extensional stretching of the Basin and Range province,leaving numerous north-south-oriented mountain ranges separated by down-dropped,sediment-filled basins.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the San Francisco Bay Area,during the nineteenth century,earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 6 were much less common than in the 20<sup>th</sup> century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Earthquake epicenters east of the Rocky Mountains are in random locations and do not cluster in certain areas.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Volcanic Eruptions: Plate Tectonics and Magmas
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Q1) Slow flowing,more viscous basaltic lava commonly has a rough,blocky texture called
A)aa
B)bb
C)cc
D)pahoehoe
E)poi
Q2) Why does the magma from some volcanoes flow smoothly and relatively peacefully,while the magma from other volcanoes blasts forth violently and deals death over wide areas?
A)differences in the chemical and mineral makeup of magmas
B)variations in the temperature,water and gas content,and viscosity of magmas
C)different geographic positions with respect to hot spots and edges of tectonic plates
D)All of these are correct.
Q3) Hawaiian volcanoes produce andesitic lava.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Volcano Processes and Deadly Events
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Q1) In 1973 the town of Vestmannaeyjar on the island of Heimaey (off the coast of Iceland),was devastated by pyroclastic flows which completely filled and closed the town's harbor.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Many of the deaths at Mt.St.Helens on May 18,1980 were related to ________________.
A)the earthquake that preceded the eruption
B)people being overcome by fast-flowing basaltic lava
C)ash fall hundreds of miles away
D)suffocation from a carbon dioxide cloud
E)the effects of lateral blast
Q3) In August 1986,a gigantic volume of carbon dioxide gas belched forth from ____________ and swept down the adjacent valleys asphyxiating 1700 people.
A)Lake Nyos in Cameroon
B)Crater Lake in Oregon
C)Krakatau in Indonesia
D)Pinatubo in the Philippines
E)Vesuvius in Italy
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Chapter 8: Tsunami Versus Wind-Caused Waves
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Q1) While California has experienced many deadly earthquakes,it has never experienced fatalities from tsunami.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1964,12 people were killed during a tsunami at Crescent City,California.All of these fatalities were caused by the _______ wave,which was the highest in the series.
A)first
B)second
C)third
D)fourth
E)fifth
Q3) It is virtually impossible for ships at sea to survive a passing tsunami.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There is little threat of a tsunami striking the east coast of the United States.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: External Energy Fuels Weather and Climate
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Q1) Adiabatic effects include expansional cooling or compressional warming.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When short-wavelength radiation from the Sun passes through a planet's atmosphere but long-wavelength reradiation is trapped,the resulting conditions produce _____________.
A)global cooling
B)a Bose-Einstein condensate
C)the greenhouse effect
D)All of the choices are correct.
Q3) There are two main jet streams in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres,
A)a polar jet and a subtropical jet.
B)a temperate jet and a tropical jet.
C)a polar jet and a temperate jet.
D)a slow jet and a fast jet.
E)an eastward jet and a westward jet.
Q4) The dew point temperature is the temperature at which air reaches 100% relative humidity,and thus water can condense from the air to form dew.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Tornadoes, Lightning, Heat, and Cold
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Q1) The Great Plains region of the central United States plays host to about ______ percent of the tornadoes that occur on Earth.
A)70
B)10
C)95
D)50
E)25
Q2) In the United States,total deaths from lightning per decade have _________________ since the 1940s.
A)been increasing steadily
B)been decreasing steadily
C)remained about the same
D)fluctuated widely
E)been insignificant
Q3) The physical principle of a spinning tornado is _________________.
A)conservation of linear momentum
B)conservation of kinetic energy
C)conservation of potential energy
D)conservation of angular momentum
E)All of the choices are correct.
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Chapter 11: Hurricanes
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Q1) Which of the following variables has been of assistance in forecasting the number of named tropical storms in the North Atlantic region?
A)when the western Sahel region of Africa is wet with an abnormally large number of thunderstorms
B)abnormally warm sea-surface temperatures west of the Sahel region of Africa
C)the presence of an El Ni-o which tends to disrupt and break apart tropical cyclone
D)low atmospheric pressure in the Caribbean region
E)All of the choices are correct.
Q2) As a hurricane forms,the air ____________________.
A)rises,cools,and releases latent heat,cooling down the hurricane's core
B)rises,cools,and releases latent heat,heating up the hurricane's core
C)rises,warms,and releases latent heat,heating up the core and adding energy to the storm
D)falls,cools,and releases latent heat,heating up the core and adding energy to the storm
Q3) A tropical depression is more intense than a tropical disturbance.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Climate Change
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Q1) The major factor in glacial periods lasting tens of millions of years appear to be changes in the sun's heat output,rather than changes in shapes,sizes,and orientations of the continents and oceans.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the 1995 heat wave,most deaths in Chicago occurred to people living ______________.
A)on the top floors of buildings
B)on the ground floor
C)in the basement where ventilation is poor
D)There was no preferential floor for deaths.
E)out in the open,sleeping in parks or under bridges
Q3) Ice sheets in the northern hemisphere have a smaller effect on global climate change than Antarctic ice sheets because they expand and shrink in more dynamic fashion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Floods
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Q1) Efforts to control rivers include _____________.
A)dams
B)levees
C)channelization
D)All of these choices are correct.
Q2) Which of the following conditions led to the 1993 flood in the midcontinental United States?
A)the jet stream moving north and south more rapidly than normal
B)the jet stream locked in place over north-central plains for an unusually long time
C)an unusual amount of rainfall caused by the after-effects of Hurricane Andrew D)one unusually large rainstorm over Iowa,Kansas,Nebraska,and Minnesota
Q3) Statistically speaking,the larger the floods,the shorter are the recurrence times between them.
A)True
B)False
Q4) It is possible to estimate the flow volume of a 100-year flood on a stream that has only 25 years of flow records.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Fire
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Q1) The vast majority of deaths from fire in the United States occur in
A)automotive accidents
B)nonresidential buildings
C)residential buildings
D)camp sites
E)large industrial plants
Q2) In many natural environments,fire is necessary to recycle nutrients and regenerate plant communities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Pyrolysis of cellulose produces which of the following?
A)methanol (wood alcohol)vapor
B)water vapor
C)fatty deposits
D)chlorophyll
E)coal
Q4) Strong winds tend to blow large fires out rather than making them spread.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Mass Movements
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Q1) The underlying cause of the Rissa,Norway,landslide was ______________.
A)dissolution of salt in the soil
B)too much gypsum in the soil
C)over-steepening of slopes of volcanic ash
D)freezing and thawing of piles of glacial boulders
E)layering of volcanic pyroclasts
Q2) Clay crystals __________________.
A)are very large
B)are very small
C)range from very large to very small
D)are amorphous
E)form isostacies
Q3) Of the following types of mass movements,which can move fastest?
A)creep
B)translational rockslide
C)avalanche
D)mudflow
E)earth flow
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Chapter 16: Coastal Processes and Hazards
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Q1) Severe coastal erosion
A)is reduced by sea wall construction
B)is accelerated by sea wall construction
C)is highest inbound of tidal flats
D)is eliminated when protection is introduced
Q2) As a wave approaches man made obstructions along the coast at an angle:
A)Sand is deposited on the near side and eroded in the wake
B)Sand is deposited on the wake side and eroded on the near
C)Sand remains constant
D)The beach is in equilibrium
E)The beach is in a state of negative feedback
Q3) When waves reach shallow water their velocity is controlled by:
A)water fluidity
B)water salinity
C)water volatiles
D)water depth
E)water chemistry
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Chapter 17: Impacts With Space Objects
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Q1) The most famous of the comets is the one carrying Edmund Halley's name,the man who calculated its orbit in 1682 and predicted its return to the inner solar system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Critical evidence for the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary impact included _________________.
A)dinosaur fossils worldwide just above the layer of impact debris
B)an iridium anomaly in a thin layer of rock 65 million years old
C)recovery of very large pieces of meteorite
D)discovery of a crater covered by jungle vegetation in Brazil
E)an Iranian deposit of reddish iron bearing strata
Q3) Clusters of asteroids such as the Apollos have orbits that intersect Earth's orbit;there are more than a thousand mountain-sized Apollo asteroids that could hit the Earth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most of the meteorites collected on the Earth's surface are "irons".
A)True
B)False
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