ESCI 101: EXAM 2

Western Washington University Esci 101 class midterm #2 flashcards for help.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allows companies to call reserves "proved" only if the oil lies near a producing well and there is "reasonable certainty" that it can be recovered profitably at current oil prices, using existing technology.
True
How much conventional oil in P50 reserves were there in the world at the end of 1996, according to the author's calculations?
850 Gbo
M. King Hubbert was not correct in his prediction that crude oil production in the lower 48 states would peak around 1969, give or take a year.
False
About what year did annual oil production peak for the world outside of the Persian Gulf.
1992
What is the so-called "recovery factor"?
new technologies enable industries to recover larger portions of oil from a basin.
Unconventional oil refers to...
Other sources of oil, such as the tar sands of Alberta, or the sludge oil in Venezuala.
The rate at which a country can produce oil rises to a maximum and then declines
When about half it's oil is gone.
Between 1975 and 1995, the green revolution has been LEAST successful in which region?
Sub-Saharan Africa
The green revolution originally described
The development of high yield varieties of rice and wheat.
Critics contend that the green revolution has led to
A. polluted water ways. B. excessive salt build-up in soils. C. groundwater depletion. D. all of the above.
With the use of only a few major varieties of cereals, we've seen a loss of biodiversity in some farm regions due to the green revolution.
True
It could be argued that the green revolution has saved huge areas of forests that otherwise would have been needed for farming.
True
The green revolution is most closely associated with
the development and use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides.
Nature's renewable freshwater is mainly the consequence of...
the sun (solar power).
Accessible runoff is defined (according to Postel et al.) as...
The proportion of total runoff that is available for human use