NR 435 Sample exam qestions

  1. The average American eats how many kgs of meat and dairy per year?
    90kg per person
  2. Most of the increase in agricultural productivity since 1950 (a two-fold increase) has been due mostly to_?
    Fertilization
  3. The major problem with DDT is
    biomagnification and bioaccumulation
  4. A major problem with heavy metal problem is their
    persistance
  5. The internation agreement to roll back carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxid emissions to about 5% below the 1990 levels by 2012, signed by 160 nations in 1997 was...
    Kyoto agreement
  6. Fossil fuels currently provide what percent of the world's energy?
    80 to 90%
  7. We currently produce what percent of US energy domestically
    about 70% (mostly from coal)
  8. Fuel cell efficiency is about?
    40 to 45%
  9. The country that is the biggest producer of hydroelectric energy exported to the US
    Canada.
  10. In 1950 the percentage of the world's population living in cities was
    38%
  11. When a factory pollutes a river, the costs and losses that affect people downstream are called
    external costs
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NR 435 Sample exam qestions
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Sample exam questions, exam 2
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