Barrons AP Environmental Science

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(D) Minamata    Bay,    Japan
(E) Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania


  1. Site of a hazardous chemical dumping ground over which homes and a
    school were built.

  2. Site of mercury poisoning.

  3. The most serious commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history.

  4. Leakage of poisonous gases from a pesticide manufacturing plant.

  5. Nuclear power plant accident that released 30 to 40 times the radiation of
    the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  6. The type of fishing seen in the diagram above would be best described as
    (A) bottom trawling
    (B) longline fishing
    (C) drift gill net
    (D) angling
    (E) cast netting


Questions 38 and 39 refer to the layers of Earth’s atmosphere as shown below.

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