STUVIA 2024/2025
GEOG 350 Midterm 2 Review Questions
groundwater - ✔✔______ is the water that infiltrates through the ground and is stored in spaces in
soil and rock.
porosity - ✔✔The amount of groundwater that can fill the spaces found in soil and rock is determined
by the
agricultural use - ✔✔In general, water use in poor countries is dominated by
bioremediation - ✔✔Plants that take up heavy metals found in water would be an example of
watershed - ✔✔A(n) ______________ is all the land drained by a particular river.
phytoremediation - ✔✔This process involves using plants to absorb and accumulate toxic material.
Once contaminants are absorbed into plants, the plants themselves are usually toxic and must be
landfilled. The cost of this process can be less than half the cost of landfilling or treating toxic soil.
vastly reduces total waste volumes. - ✔✔Composting is a waste disposal method that
%
bioaccumulation - ✔✔The accumulation of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in various tissues
of a living organism is defined as
phosphates - ✔✔Examples of POPs, persistent organic pollutants, include all of the following except
Mosquitoes with an aquatic larval form spread many highly contagious diseases. - ✔✔The cutting of
rainforests causes a lack of normal water flow into the soil. Puddles of water can stand for long
periods. Which of the following statements best explains how rainforest destruction is closely tied with
human morbidity and mortality?
are dangerous substances; poisonous substances - ✔✔Hazardous substances ______________
while toxins are ______________.
retain their toxicity as they cycle through the food chain and environment. - ✔✔Highly persistent toxic
chemicals
extrapolation of data to low doses; extrapolation of data from non-human species to humans -
✔✔Two problems encountered in human health risk assessment are _______________________
and _______
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