Enviro Chapters 11-15

Soil, fresh water, wild animals, and timber are examples of

• renewable resources

• inexhaustible resources

• nonrenewable resources

Salvage logging can

• decrease soil erosion

• decrease commercial logging

• promote wildfires

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About how much of Earth's land surface is used for agriculture?

• 8%

• 18%

• 28%

• 38%

The organic matter in soil includes

• minerals

• living and decomposing organisms

• living organisms only

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Which type of rock forms when layers of weathered materials are pressed together over time?

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

Which type of mining would NOT be used to mine coal?

• strip mining

• mountaintop removal

• solution mining

More than 97% of Earth's total water supply is found in

• ice sheets

• the oceans

• the atmosphere

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Globally, MOST fresh water used by humans is for

• drinking and cooking

• washing and home use

• agricultural irrigation

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A boundary along which a mass of warm, moist air replaces a mass of cool, dry air is called

• air front

• warm front

• cold front

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The main chemicals responsible for the ozone hole are

• sulfuric acid and nitric acid

• volatile organic compounds

• chlorofluorocarbons

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