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Environmental Science explores the intricate relationships between the natural world and human activity, focusing on the scientific principles that govern the environment and the impact of society on ecosystems. This course covers key topics such as ecology, biodiversity, climate change, resource management, pollution, and sustainability. Through interdisciplinary study, students gain an understanding of environmental challenges, the methods used to analyze and address them, and the importance of creating solutions for a sustainable future. The course blends theoretical knowledge with practical experience through laboratory investigations, fieldwork, and case studies.
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Physical Geography A Landscape Appreciation 10th Edition by Darrel Hess
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Earth
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Q1) The Milky Way is one of, at least, ________ galaxies in the Universe.
A) two thousand
B) two hundred thousand
C) two million
D) two hundred billion
E) two trillion
Answer: D
Q2) The fact that the Earth is round has been known for more than 2,000 years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Earth/Sun aphelion occurs once per year during the month of ________.
A) January
B) March
C) July
D) December
E) September
Answer: C
Q4) He was first to correctly calculate the circumference of Earth: ________.
Answer: Eratosthenes
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Chapter 2: Portraying Earth
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Q1) On small scale maps, it is difficult to achieve ________.
A) a circle of tangency
B) proper scale
C) equivalence
D) pole-centered perspective
E) conformality
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is NOT part of a Geographic Information System?
A) collection, input, and correction of data
B) human drawing of isolines on maps
C) data storage and retrieval
D) output and reporting
E) manipulation and analysis of data layers
Answer: B
Q3) A Great Circle Route is always shown as a curved line on a map projection.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) A ________ is another name for a loxodrome.
Answer: rhumb line
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Chapter 3: Introduction to the Atmosphere
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Q1) Which of the following would be most variable at your location on a day-to-day basis?
A) oxygen
B) nitrogen
C) carbon dioxide
D) water vapor
E) They all vary.
Answer: D
Q2) Air temperature, pressure, and moisture content are heavily influenced by the climatic control of altitude.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Temperatures in the thermosphere are warmer than in the troposphere.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The atmospheric content of ________ has been increasing for the last century. Answer: carbon dioxide
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Chapter 4: Insolation and Temperature
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Q1) In a single second, the Earth receives as much energy from the Sun as
A) it reradiates in a week.
B) humans use in a century.
C) humans have used since the beginning of civilization.
D) all powerplants generate in a week.
E) Earth has produced by volcanic eruptions since the beginning of Earth history.
Q2) In the middle and high latitudes, there are no significant seasonal variations in the duration of sunlight.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The ability of a molecule to pass through the atmosphere is called scattering.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The MAIN source of atmosphere heating is from the
A) absorption of ultraviolet energy from the Sun.
B) conduction of energy from the Earth.
C) convection of energy from the Earth.
D) reradiation of energy from the Earth.
E) absorption of insolation.
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Chapter 5: Atmospheric Pressure and Wind
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Q1) Speed of the wind is unaffected by
A) friction.
B) pressure gradient.
C) Coriolis effect.
D) differences in heating between locations.
E) the roughness of Earth's surface.
Q2) The chinook is the American equivalent of the European wind known as the ________.
Q3) A wet monsoon is associated with high rainfall totals and is caused by ________.
A) gravitational forces
B) volcanic gases
C) a seasonal reversal of winds
D) the jet stream
E) Coriolis effect
Q4) Monsoons bring general devastation to all regions they pass over, with few beneficial side effects.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ________ are semipermanent areas of high pressure centered over oceans.
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Q6) With a diagram, explain the occurrence of a Santa Ana (chinook) wind.
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Chapter 6: Atmospheric Moisture
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Q1) Relative humidity and specific humidity are both measured as a percentage.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The lifting condensation level is the altitude at which rising air is cooled to the dew point.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Regions which average heavy rainfall exhibit, in general, little precipitation variability over time.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The hydrologic cycle refers to the ________.
A) totality of forms of precipitation
B) unending circulation of Earth's water supply
C) flow of rivers
D) groundwater flow to the surface
E) latent heat of vaporization
Q5) Moving air helps increase evaporation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Atmospheric Disturbances
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Q1) Air near the Pacific Coast of the United States is usually more ________ than air over the Gulf Coast of the United States thus preventing hurricanes.
A) cooler
B) drier
C) more stable
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q2) Which of the following occurs most frequently?
A) A hurricane
B) A tropical storm
C) A tropical depression
D) An easterly wave
E) They all occur with approximately the same frequency.
Q3) The cumulus stage is the first stage in the formation of a thunderstorm.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Tornado tracks tend to be linear and north to south in the U.S.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain how midlatitude cyclones are associated with midlatitude anticyclones.
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Chapter 8: Climatic and Climate Change
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Q1) The classic marine west-coast climate is the ________.
A) Csa
B) Cfa
C) Cfb
D) Csb
E) Cwa
Q2) The maximum poleward extent of tropical wet climate is along the west coasts of continents.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mediterranean climates experience dry summers because of ________.
A) a double maximum of Sun elevation
B) the position of subtropical high pressure
C) the cool ocean currents
D) adjacent rain shadows
E) none of the above
Q4) The B climates are the only group in the Köppen system to be categorized by the lack of moisture.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Hydrosphere
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Q1) Underground water is much more widely distributed than surface water.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A body of water that is smaller than an ocean and partially landlocked is known as a "sea".
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the paths of water through the hydrologic cycle.
Q4) Earth's "world ocean" contains ________ cubic kilometers of salt water.
A) 1.32 thousand
B) 1.32 hundred thousand
C) 1.32 million
D) 1.32 billion
E) 1.32 trillion
Q5) ________ is the world's deepest lake.
A) Lake Titicaca
B) The Caspian Sea
C) The Great Salt Lake
D) Lake Superior
E) None of the above
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Chapter 10: Cycles and Patterns in the Biosphere
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Q1) ________ is the term for the physical amount of plant material at a location.
A) Biomass
B) Intraspecific composition
C) Biota
D) Biome
E) Biology
Q2) Of the total solar energy reaching the Earth, ________ percent is fixed by photosynthesis.
A) 40
B) 10
C) 5
D) 1
E) <1
Q3) Net primary productivity is greatest on land ________.
A) where nutrients are greatest
B) in the tropics
C) in the middle latitudes
D) in the polar latitudes
E) where nutrients are least
Q4) How do plants create carbohydrates?
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Chapter 11: Terrestrial Flora and Fauna
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Q1) Midlatitude grasslands dominated by short grasses are known as ________.
Q2) It is well understood as to why treeline altitudes vary between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The floristic association which is much less extensive than the others on the list is
A) tundra
B) grasslands
C) forests
D) wetlands
E) woodlands
Q4) ________ is a biome characterized by a sparse cover of widely scattered individual plants.
A) The midlatitude grasslands
B) The boreal forest
C) Desert
D) Mediterranean woodland and shrub
E) Tundra
Q5) Birds are thought to have evolved from ________.
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Chapter 12: Soils
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Q1) Many essential plant nutrients occur in soil solutions as cations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The measure of acidity/alkalinity in soils is based on the relative concentration of active hydrogen ions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The capability of a soil to attract and exchange cations is known as the ________.
Q4) Bacteria are among the most important of all soil fauna.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Field capacity is the maximum amount of water that can be retained in the soil after gravitational water has drained away.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The mixing of soil materials by the activities of animals is known as ________.
Q7) Reddish and yellowish soil colors indicate ________ stains on the outside of soil particles.
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Chapter 13: Introduction to Landform Study
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Q1) Humans have drilled less than one-thousandth of the distance from the surface to the center of the Earth.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The most widespread oxides are those that combine oxygen and ________.
A) water
B) calcite
C) native elements
D) silver
E) iron
Q3) In a Focus section in the "Introduction to Landform Chapter" the authors write about a hike in Horseshoe Park in the Colorado Rockies and looking back at North America from a spacecraft. The point of this Focus section is to understand more about ________ and the landscape.
A) local relief
B) rocks
C) folding
D) volcanoes
E) scale
Q4) Explain why geographers are as interested as geologists in geomorphology.
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Chapter 14: The Internal Processes
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Q1) Blueschist is a rock found in subduction zones.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Sierra Nevada and Sawtooth mountain ranges were caused by a huge intrusion type known as a ________.
A) dike
B) batholith
C) laccolith
D) stock
E) vein
Q3) Huge mountain ranges and shallow-focus earthquakes are common along convergent boundaries between pairs of continental plates.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A tsunami is
A) a common occurrence in the central U.S.
B) a large earthquake which kills humans.
C) another term for a seismic sea wave.
D) unknown in tropical places like Hawaii.
E) the glowing blast of an exploded volcano.
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Chapter 15: Preliminaries to Erosion: Weathering and Mass Wasting
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Q1) Calcareous rock is closely associated with ________.
A) vesicles
B) exfoliation
C) hydration
D) granular disintegration
E) solution cavities
Q2) Frost shattering is also called frost ________.
A) wedging
B) creep
C) exfoliation
D) weathering
E) slump
Q3) Oxidation in rocks is often initiated by oxygen dissolved in water.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Gravity is the energizing force in mass wasting.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Within 5 percent, the typical angle of repose on talus is ________ percent.
Q6) Exfoliation is most common in ________ and similar rocks.
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Chapter 16: Fluvial Processes
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Q1) Over time, which of the following has happened to Niagara Falls?
A) They have become rapids.
B) They have migrated several kilometers upstream.
C) They have migrated several kilometers downstream.
D) They have drained away most of Lake Ontario's water.
E) They have evolved into the world's most famous example of stream capture.
Q2) Aggradation occurs on geologically uplifted parts of Earth's crust.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is descriptive of hillslope form as found in nature?
A) steep
B) convex
C) concave
D) irregular
E) all of the above
Q4) Streams carving large valleys do most of their erosional work during flood stage.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain what circumstances make streamflow so unsystematic and irregular.
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Chapter 17: Karst and Hydrothermal Processes
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Q1) Geysers are associated with karst topography and sandstone bedrock.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Travertine and tufa are both composed of ________.
A) calcium carbonate
B) granite
C) igneous rock
D) non-soluble minerals
E) heat-resistant algae
Q3) A ________ is usually less massive than its companion feature, the stalagmite.
Q4) A large, steep-sided, circular hill of residual limestone bedrock is known as a
A) stalagtite
B) doline
C) mogote
D) sinkhole
E) cavern
Q5) The flow of underground water is largely unchanneled.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: The Topography of Arid Lands
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Q1) A shallow depression from which an abundance of fine material has been deflated is known as a deflation hollow or ________.
A) seif
B) blowout
C) tombolo
D) barchan
E) swash
Q2) A densely-packed stream network on erodible sedimentary rocks produces
A) badlands
B) mesas
C) pediments
D) caprock
E) pinnacles
Q3) The lowest point in an interior basin is a gibber.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Death Valley is present because of faulting.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) The sandhills of Nebraska are actually relict ________.
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Chapter 19: Glacial Modification of Terrain
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Q1) At its maximum extent, continental glacial ice in North America extended as far south as ________.
A) the Gulf of Mexico
B) Florida
C) Minnesota
D) The Ohio River
E) Montana
Q2) Which region had the LEAST coverage (square kilometers) of glacial ice during the Pleistocene?
A) Asia
B) South America
C) Greenland
D) North America
E) Africa
Q3) Which of the following correctly describes contemporary glaciation?
A) Major ice shelves are collapsing.
B) It accomplishes most of today's erosion and deposition.
C) There are no longer ice sheets.
D) There are no longer mountain glaciers.
E) It is associated with much different effects than Pleistocene glaciers.
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Chapter 20: Coastal Processes and Terrain
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Q1) The force of ________, in conjunction with the wind, is the cause of most waves.
A) gravity
B) pressure
C) temperature
D) Coriolis effect
E) Friction
Q2) Some coastal landforms are built by sea creatures capable of producing rocklike material called ________.
A) polyps
B) clay
C) calcium carbonate
D) granite
E) sand
Q3) Draw and label a series of three diagrams showing the relationships of a volcanic island to coral reefs as the island emerges and then sinks beneath the ocean.
Q4) The Monaco Declaration of October 2008 was related to ________.
Q5) ________ are the tiny marine animals that deposit coral.
Q6) The most notable erosion along coastlines is accomplished by ________.
Q7) Explain the origin, travel, and shoreline actions of a tsunami.
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