Exam 13: Human Environment

The Kyoto Protocol

The Earth's most recent experience with mass volcanism was between _________ million years ago.

The most recent glaciation of the Pleistocene was the ________ Glaciation.

How has the climate of the Earth changed in the past 15,000 years? Describe periods of alternate warming and cooling and some of the associated environmental effects.What do some theories hold has been the impact of the Industrial Revolution global climate patterns?

One of the great ecological disasters of the twentieth century occurred in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and involves the ________________

Chlorofluorocarbon gasses are the main culprits in ozone depletion.These gasses have only been in use since the ________________

The Global Environmental Facility funds projects related to four issues.Which of the following is not one of these?

The Sea of Galilee forms a large freshwater reservoir in the Jordan Valley and is the source of most of the water for which of the following countries?

The U.S.,European Union and Japan export solid waste to countries in Africa,South and Middle America,and East Asia.

The geologic epoch,characterized by global warming,in which we are now living is the _____________

Wind energy parks in Spain created 695 million euro in income in 2002.

The distribution of precipitation over the areas of the Earth,with concentrations in some areas and paucity in others,is sustained through a process called the ________________

In the world of the early 2000s,there are many international policy-making bodies with significant authority over multinational environmental spaces.

Modes of transportation represent some of the most important technological advances,with profound environmental impact,in human history.

Human habitation of the Pacific Islands is estimated to have led to the extinction of _______ bird species.

The forests in S.Africa are primarily ____________

When it comes to environmental change,population numbers alone do not have the same meaning in all places.

To some extent acid rain has always been present in certain humid environments,but during the last century the spread of _____________ has greatly increased the destructive capabilities of natural acid rain.

The geography of acid rain occurrence is most closely associated with patterns of industrial concentration and ________________

Plant life and photosynthesis began about 1.5 billion years ago and increased the ___________ level in the atmosphere.