Barrons AP Environmental Science

(E) Methyl bromide (CH 3 Br), also known as bromomethane, originates from both natural and human sources. ...

(E) Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from mel ...

(E) Earth’s primitive forests first appeared around 300 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period. Before ...

(A) Ozone depletion follows an annual cycle that corresponds to the amount of light that reaches the Antarct ...

(E) Concentrations of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have leveled off in the stratosphere and have actua ...

(D) Current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events. As Earth moved out o ...

(D) The Fish and Wildlife Service, in the Department of the Interior, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

(B) CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) is an international agreement betwee ...

(A) The strength of the traditional wildlife management approach is that it explicitly uses and enhances ...

(E) The Precautionary Principle states that if the consequences of an action are unknown but are judged to have ...

(C) All choices but (C) can be dealt with on a local level through specific enforcement and management practices. ...

(E) A positive feedback loop occurs in a situation in which a change in a certain direction (toward e ...

(C) Ozone is produced by oxygen and sunlight in the UVC wavelength range (<240 nm). In the atmosphere, t ...

(A) The stratosphere has been cooling over the past three decades. The stratosphere contains the ozone ...

(A) Sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) contributes to acid rain, not global warming. ...

(C) There is speculation that global warming could melt glaciers in Greenland, increasing the amount of fres ...

(D) The tropics contain the highest biodiversity found anywhere on Earth. Deforestation in the tropics, in orde ...

and Antarctica) = lower albedo = less reflected light (greater conversion of light energy into infrared heat ...

(c) Maximum 6 points total: 2 points for listing and describing ONE economic consequence, 2 points for listin ...

arrival of those events, placing these organisms at risk of starvation or death. ■ As increased carbon dioxid ...