21) What did countries that ratifed the Kyoto Protocol agree to do? A) eliminate

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21) What did countries that ratifed the Kyoto Protocol agree to do?
A) eliminate their emissions of major greenhouse gases
B) reduce their emissions of major greenhouse gases below 1990 levels
C) keep their emissions of major greenhouse gases at current levels
D) allow their emission of major greenhouse gases to go no higher than 10% above current levels
E) eliminate their emissions of greenhouse gases and all other pollutants by 2010

22) Why are less developed countries (LDCs) reluctant to sign the Kyoto Protocol?
A) Restricted emissions from most-developed countries (MDCs) created the problem.
B) Emissions accumulated in the atmosphere from less developed countries since the nineteenth century and is the major culprit of today's problem
C) Signing the Kyoto Protocol could limit the economic future of LDCs.
D) Up to now, LDCs such as China and India have added very little to the build-up of greenhouse gases and have stable or descreasing emission rates.



23) This term refers to the position taken by developing countries such as China and India, which argue that, because Western industrial countries in North America and Europe have been burning large amounts of fossil fuels since the mid-19th century and because CO2 stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, these countries caused the global warming problem and therefore should fix it.
A) Carbon inequity
B) Carbon sequestration
C) Social justice
D) Economic rationalism
E) Rational equity

24) The natural process of the Earth's atmosphere heating through the trapping of reradiated infrared radiation is known as
A) the greenhouse effect.
B) thermal inversion.
C) solar heating.
D) climate change.
E) subduction.

25) Which substance is of great concern to scientists studying human-generated greenhouse gases, and is thought to increase such that the earth's climate will be irrevocably changed by 2020?
A) chlorofluorocarbons
B) carbon dioxide
C) methane
D) nitrous oxide
E) ozone

26) Water planners use the concept of ________ to map where water problems exist and also to predict where future problems will occur.
A) water stress
B) cation ratio
C) water predictive analysis
D) systems analysis
E) water output prediction solutions

27) Hydrologists predict that ________ percent of Africa's population will experience Water shortages by 2025
A) 35
B) 45
C) 60
D) 75
E) 90



28) Globally, about ________ percent of the world's freshwater usage is for agriculture.
A) 50
B) 60
C) 70
D) 80
E) 40

29) Currently, about ________ of the world's population lives in areas where water shortages are common
A) 25%
B) 40%
C) 50%
D) 65%
E) 75%

30) In Haiti, even before the 2010 earthquake, almost ________ % of all deaths of children under five were directly tied to waterborne diseases
A) 70
B) 50
C) 40
D) 30
E) 20

21) What did countries that ratifed the Kyoto Protocol agree to do?
A) eliminate their emissions of major greenhouse gases
B) reduce their emissions of major greenhouse gases below 1990 levels
C) keep their emissions of major greenhouse gases at current levels
D) allow their emission of major greenhouse gases to go no higher than 10% above current levels
E) eliminate their emissions of greenhouse gases and all other pollutants by 2010

22) Why are less developed countries (LDCs) reluctant to sign the Kyoto Protocol?
A) Restricted emissions from most-developed countries (MDCs) created the problem.
B) Emissions accumulated in the atmosphere from less developed countries since the nineteenth century and is the major culprit of today's problem
C) Signing the Kyoto Protocol could limit the economic future of LDCs.
D) Up to now, LDCs such as China and India have added very little to the build-up of greenhouse gases and have stable or descreasing emission rates.



23) This term refers to the position taken by developing countries such as China and India, which argue that, because Western industrial countries in North America and Europe have been burning large amounts of fossil fuels since the mid-19th century and because CO2 stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, these countries caused the global warming problem and therefore should fix it.
A) Carbon inequity
B) Carbon sequestration
C) Social justice
D) Economic rationalism
E) Rational equity

24) The natural process of the Earth's atmosphere heating through the trapping of reradiated infrared radiation is known as
A) the greenhouse effect.
B) thermal inversion.
C) solar heating.
D) climate change.
E) subduction.

25) Which substance is of great concern to scientists studying human-generated greenhouse gases, and is thought to increase such that the earth's climate will be irrevocably changed by 2020?
A) chlorofluorocarbons
B) carbon dioxide
C) methane
D) nitrous oxide
E) ozone

26) Water planners use the concept of ________ to map where water problems exist and also to predict where future problems will occur.
A) water stress
B) cation ratio
C) water predictive analysis
D) systems analysis
E) water output prediction solutions

27) Hydrologists predict that ________ percent of Africa's population will experience Water shortages by 2025
A) 35
B) 45
C) 60
D) 75
E) 90



28) Globally, about ________ percent of the world's freshwater usage is for agriculture.
A) 50
B) 60
C) 70
D) 80
E) 40

29) Currently, about ________ of the world's population lives in areas where water shortages are common
A) 25%
B) 40%
C) 50%
D) 65%
E) 75%

30) In Haiti, even before the 2010 earthquake, almost ________ % of all deaths of children under five were directly tied to waterborne diseases
A) 70
B) 50
C) 40
D) 30
E) 20

21) What did countries that ratifed the Kyoto Protocol agree to do?
A) eliminate their emissions of major greenhouse gases
B) reduce their emissions of major greenhouse gases below 1990 levels
C) keep their emissions of major greenhouse gases at current levels
D) allow their emission of major greenhouse gases to go no higher than 10% above current levels
E) eliminate their emissions of greenhouse gases and all other pollutants by 2010

22) Why are less developed countries (LDCs) reluctant to sign the Kyoto Protocol?
A) Restricted emissions from most-developed countries (MDCs) created the problem.
B) Emissions accumulated in the atmosphere from less developed countries since the nineteenth century and is the major culprit of today's problem
C) Signing the Kyoto Protocol could limit the economic future of LDCs.
D) Up to now, LDCs such as China and India have added very little to the build-up of greenhouse gases and have stable or descreasing emission rates.



23) This term refers to the position taken by developing countries such as China and India, which argue that, because Western industrial countries in North America and Europe have been burning large amounts of fossil fuels since the mid-19th century and because CO2 stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, these countries caused the global warming problem and therefore should fix it.
A) Carbon inequity
B) Carbon sequestration
C) Social justice
D) Economic rationalism
E) Rational equity

24) The natural process of the Earth's atmosphere heating through the trapping of reradiated infrared radiation is known as
A) the greenhouse effect.
B) thermal inversion.
C) solar heating.
D) climate change.
E) subduction.

25) Which substance is of great concern to scientists studying human-generated greenhouse gases, and is thought to increase such that the earth's climate will be irrevocably changed by 2020?
A) chlorofluorocarbons
B) carbon dioxide
C) methane
D) nitrous oxide
E) ozone

26) Water planners use the concept of ________ to map where water problems exist and also to predict where future problems will occur.
A) water stress
B) cation ratio
C) water predictive analysis
D) systems analysis
E) water output prediction solutions

27) Hydrologists predict that ________ percent of Africa's population will experience Water shortages by 2025
A) 35
B) 45
C) 60
D) 75
E) 90



28) Globally, about ________ percent of the world's freshwater usage is for agriculture.
A) 50
B) 60
C) 70
D) 80
E) 40

29) Currently, about ________ of the world's population lives in areas where water shortages are common
A) 25%
B) 40%
C) 50%
D) 65%
E) 75%

30) In Haiti, even before the 2010 earthquake, almost ________ % of all deaths of children under five were directly tied to waterborne diseases
A) 70
B) 50
C) 40
D) 30
E) 20

Explanation / Answer

21)  B) reduce their emissions of major greenhouse gases below 1990 levels

22) C) Signing the Kyoto Protocol could limit the economic future of LDCs.

23) A) Carbon inequity

24) A) the greenhouse effect.

25) B) carbon dioxide

26) A) water stress

27) D) 75

28) C) 70

29) C) 50%

30) E) 20

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