Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding solid waste and disposal?
a. Americans today dispose of almost 100 million tons of municipal solid waste
more commonly known as trash or garbageeach year.
b. The amount of waste each person produces has risen over the past few years.
c. Only about one-third of households recycle their wastes.
d. In 2015, there were about 550 active landfills in the United States.
Which is NOT one of the five stages of death and dying, as found in the famous work On Death and Dying?
a. denial
b. anger
c. euphoria
d. bargaining
The effluents of many factories and generating plantsespecially nuclear power plantsare warmer than the rivers and lakes into which they flow, and when discharged in quantity, they may raise the water temperature significantly.
This is known as __________. a. acid rain
b. the hydrologic cycle
c. thermal pollution
d. the greenhouse effect
What does research suggest about the so-called widow effect?
a. The widow effect seems to occur significantly more often for males than for females.
b. There is no truth to the widow effect.
c. The widow effect seems strongest for Hispanic females.
d. There may be a widow effect for whites, but not for blacks.
Women are more likely to be widowed than are men for three primary reasons. Which is NOT one of these reasons?
a. Women have longer life expectancy.
b. Wives are typically younger than their husbands.
c. Widowed women are less likely to remarry than are widowed men.
d. Women have lower infant-mortality rates.
Dani is on a work assignment and he noticed that the AQI in the city he is working in was over 500 . Which of the following cities do you think Dani may be working in?
a. Los Angeles, CA
b. Seattle, WA
c. Beijing, China
d. Helsinki, Finland
As people age, the likelihood of being married begins to decline, particularly for _______.
a. women
b. Hispanic men
c. Asian women
d. men
The AQI __________.
a. is a term used to describe the water hydrologic cycle
b. is a measure of the economic effects of air pollution by factoring in the costs of
deteriorating property, worker productivity, and farm losses and higher food
prices
c. is a measure of the effects of water pollution on human health and quality of life
d. is a measure of the amount of five pollutants in the air regulated by the Clean Air
Act
Medicaid regulations protect the assets and homes of married spouses when the other spouse enters a nursing home or long-term care facility; no such protections are offered to same-sex partners. This is an argument for __________.
a. same-sex marriage
b. double jeopardy
c. abolishing ageism
d. outlawing the widow effect
Scientists suggest that there will be many consequences of climate change. Which is NOT one of these changes?
a. heavier precipitation and flooding
b. longer wildfire seasons but less damaging wildfires due to precipitation
c. disruption to food supplies
d. accelerated sea level rise and increased coastal flooding
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