Ash Pol 310 Week 3 Quiz

POL 310 Week 3 Quiz



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1.   Pesticide from the landscape that contaminates the Chesapeake Bay is which type of pollution?
Run-off
Treated
effluent
Subsidence
Point source
 
2.   The Clean Water Act and its amendments do not address which of the following problems?
Regulating emissions of toxic materials into waterways
Treating water so that it is safe to drink
Providing funding to build new wastewater treatment
facilities Regulating industrial point-source pollution
 
3.   Water rights in Western states are granted under a scheme known as:  
Riparian Rights.
Doctrine of Prior Appropriation.
Public Trust Doctrine.
Ambient-based Regulation.
 
4.   De-oxygenation of the water caused by agricultural run-off linked to algae growth is known as:
eutrophication.
sedimentation.
desalination.
chlorination.
 
5.   The 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act had all of the following goals, except:
immediately eliminate the discharge of toxic substances into bodies of water.
eventually eliminate all kinds of water pollution.
eventually eliminate the need for local wastewater treatment facilities.
ensure that surface waters would become safe for human swimming.
 
6.   Drilling for oil in the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would possibly result in the extraction of crude oil. If crude oil was successful extracted, this would:
create a refuge for the Porcupine caribou.
eliminate U.S. need for foreign oil.
prevent  terrorist  attacks  on  U.S.  soil.     
be sold on the world market.
 
7.   The following types of energy sources are fossil fuels, except:  
coal.
biomass.
natural gas.
oil.
 
8.   Use of renewable energy, as compared with the use of fossil fuels, results in all of the following, except:
lower emissions of greenhouse gases.
reliable energy flow in all parts of the country.
less air pollution.
lower...