Exam 14: Urban Environmental Management

How is the quantity of water in urban areas affected by the hydrological cycle?

LEED refers to ________.

Incentives to encourage different behaviour in terms of transportation include ________.

Halifax diverts over half of its waste from landfill sites.

Using Copenhagen's ________ is an example of environmental improvement and green growth going hand in hand with liveability.

Between 2002 and 2016, in Canada the percentage of waste diverted from residential sources grew to ________.

The urban heat island effect can be reduced by ________.

Ground-level ozone is also known as ________.

On the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale a Category 3 hurricane has the wind speed of ________ km/hour.

________ of global waste ends up in open dumping facilities.

Hurricane Sandy was a Category 1 hurricane when it hit the East Coast of the USA. It caused extensive damage because of ________.

Achieving sustainable urban development requires attention to ________.

Urban sprawl contributes to loss, disruption, and degradation of ________.

Part of the reason that the remediation of the gasification plant site in Kitchener, Ontario, was more expensive than initially anticipated was that the contaminated soils extended much deeper and contained more hazardous materials than initially anticipated.

________ result in stormwater running off more quickly.

The Saffir-Simpson scale is a measurement of the intensity of an earthquake.

Finding sites for waste disposal can be challenging because they are viewed as ________, which can trigger ________.

Kitchener, Ontario, spent more than $19 million to remove ________ from beneath one city block.

In Canada, there has been a decrease the number of smog advisory days since 2005.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) originated in Canada.