1 .		A fossil fuel is the residue of plants and animals that became buried millions of years ago.   True  False
2 .		The supply of fossil fuels is infinite.   True  False
3 .		Fossil fuels are consumed in the same regions where they are produced.   True  False
4 .		Renewable energy is considered replaceable if it occurs within a human lifespan.   True  False
5 .		The amount of energy remaining in deposits that have been discovered is called a proven reserve.   True  False
6 .		The energy in undiscovered deposits that are thought to exist is a potential reserve.   True  False
7 .		The estimates of potential reserves are as accurate as are the estimates of proven reserves.   True  False
8 .		Today's main reserves of coal are in mid-latitude countries because of continental drift.   True  False
9 .		The share of world energy consumed by LDCs will increase from about 25 percent today to 60 percent in about twenty years.   True  False
10 .		Only about 10 percent of total U.S. petroleum consumption comes from Arab OPEC countries.   True  False
11 .		The world will run out of petroleum during the twenty-first century.   True  False
12 .		Major motor vehicle producers and market research firms have evidence that few consumers are actually willing to incur the additional cost of an electric vehicle.   True  False
13 .		Nuclear and solar energy are two of the most favored in current energy planning.   True  False
14 .		The big advantage of nuclear power is the large amount of energy that is released from a small amount of material.   True  False
15 .		Over three-quarters of France's energy needs are produced by nuclear means.   True  False
16 .		Energy is produced by nuclear power through a process called fission.   True  False
17 .		The time required for radioactive waste to decay to a safe level is far longer than any country or civilization has existed.   True  False
18 .		Uranium is a nonrenewable resource, with about 60 years at current rates of use.   True  False
19 .		Passive solar energy systems capture energy without special devices.   True  False
20 .		An active solar system collects solar energy without converting it to heat or electrical energy.   True  False
21 .		A place that receives relatively little sunlight can not use solar energy.   True  False
22 .		An installation costing around $2,000 provides a solar energy system that furnishes virtually all household heat and electricity.   True  False
23 .		The actions of many people in a small area are not likely to exceed the capacity of the environment to absorb the waste.   True  False
24 .		Air pollution is a concentration of trace substances at a greater level than occurs in average air.   True  False
25 .		Carbon dioxide is the primary pollutant responsible for global warming.   True  False
26 .		CFCs threaten the earth's protective ozone layer.   True  False
27 .		Acid precipitation is one of the results of acid deposition.   True  False
28 .		According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the worst U.S. city for concentrations of carbon monoxide is Denver.   True  False
29 .		Manufacturers and municipal sewage systems tend to pollute through nonpoint sources.   True  False
30 .		Nonpoint sources usually pollute in greater quantities and are much harder to control.   True  False
31 .		Pollution occurs when the amount of the waste discharged into the environment exceeds the capacity of the air, water, or land to absorb it.   True  False
32 .		Desertification is a process whereby human actions cause land to deteriorate to a desertlike condition.   True  False
33 .		The United Nations estimates that desertification removes removes 104,000 square miles of land from agricultural production each year.   True  False
34 .		If the irrigated land has inadequate drainage, the underground water level rises to the point where roots become waterlogged.   True  False
35 .		The invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970s and 1980s is called the green revolution.   True  False
36 .		Because of the green revolution, agricultural productivity at a global scale has increased faster than population growth during the last half of the twentieth century.   True  False
37 .		The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service estimates that 65 of 153 species of fish that it monitors off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are overfished.   True  False
38 .		A so-called exclusive economic zone can exist within 200 nautical miles of a country's coast, with a right to seize foreign fishing boats.   True  False
39 .		People select foods on the basis of religious values, taboos, and other social customs that are unrelated to nutritional or environmental factors.   True  False
40 .		Production of most food crops is lower today in Africa than in the 1960s.   True  False