Topic: Environmental Science
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Preferred language style: English (U.S.)
1) Describe the path a molecule of water might follow through the hydrologic cycle from the ocean
2) to land and back again.
3) Describe the least one example of the environmental costs of water diversion from river to farms or cities.
4) Explain the difference between point and nonpoint pollution. Which is harder to control? Why?
1) How does tectonic plate movement create ocean basins, mid ocean ridges, and volcanoes?
2) Describe some of the mining, processing, and drilling methods that can degrade water or air quality.
3) What resources, aside from minerals themselves, can be saved by recycling?
1) What are the major sources of global energy?
2) What are proven-in-place reserves?
3) What are biofuels, how could they contribute to sustainability?