chapter 13 Exam Management 4308
Chapter 13
Student: ___________________________________________________________________________
1.
Superfund refers to a federal program that was set up in 1980 to clean up toxic waste sites.
True False
2.
Disease caused by industrial pollution is far more significant than disease caused by older, non-industrial forms of pollution.
True False
3.
One disability-adjusted life year (DALY) equals one lost year of healthy life.
True False
4.
The ecosystem is home to multiple biospheres.
True False
5.
Nonpolluting economic growth that raises standards of living without depleting the planet's resources of the earth is called sustainable development.
True False
6.
According to the theory of dualism, humans and nature are one.
True False
7.
According to the theory of land ethic, humans are part of an ethical community that includes not only other human beings but all elements of the natural environment.
True False
8.
When Congress passes an environmental law, Environmental Protection Agency employees write the detailed, specific rules needed to make it work.
True False
9.
The largest source of carbon monoxide is electric utilities burning coal and oil.
True False
10. Gases that evaporate from liquid or solid carbon-based compounds are known as condensibles.
True False
11. Hazardous air pollutants are chemical emissions that pose a health risk of serious illness such as cancer or birth defects with small inhalation exposures.
True False
12. The maximum achievable control technology is a performance standard used by the Environmental
Protection Agency to control emissions of hazardous air pollutants.
True False
13. Acid rain is caused primarily by two air pollutants, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide.
True False
14. Indoor air in developed nations contains a mixture of pollutants including combustion by-products from cooking such as carbon monoxide and asbestos.
True False
15. Radon is an
Student: ___________________________________________________________________________
1.
Superfund refers to a federal program that was set up in 1980 to clean up toxic waste sites.
True False
2.
Disease caused by industrial pollution is far more significant than disease caused by older, non-industrial forms of pollution.
True False
3.
One disability-adjusted life year (DALY) equals one lost year of healthy life.
True False
4.
The ecosystem is home to multiple biospheres.
True False
5.
Nonpolluting economic growth that raises standards of living without depleting the planet's resources of the earth is called sustainable development.
True False
6.
According to the theory of dualism, humans and nature are one.
True False
7.
According to the theory of land ethic, humans are part of an ethical community that includes not only other human beings but all elements of the natural environment.
True False
8.
When Congress passes an environmental law, Environmental Protection Agency employees write the detailed, specific rules needed to make it work.
True False
9.
The largest source of carbon monoxide is electric utilities burning coal and oil.
True False
10. Gases that evaporate from liquid or solid carbon-based compounds are known as condensibles.
True False
11. Hazardous air pollutants are chemical emissions that pose a health risk of serious illness such as cancer or birth defects with small inhalation exposures.
True False
12. The maximum achievable control technology is a performance standard used by the Environmental
Protection Agency to control emissions of hazardous air pollutants.
True False
13. Acid rain is caused primarily by two air pollutants, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide.
True False
14. Indoor air in developed nations contains a mixture of pollutants including combustion by-products from cooking such as carbon monoxide and asbestos.
True False
15. Radon is an