AP Enviro: Video Quiz (as noted, this is worth a QUIZ grade!)
Name: _________________________________
You will be watching the video: ______________________________ (please write in the name of video).
This video is divided into several sections and will be stopped briefly at the end of each section.
Your Assignment: Please answer the questions for each section. Depending on your capability, you can either answer
the questions while you are watching or during the break between each section. Note that there will only be a brief 3
minute time allocation between sections.
I.
Peak Oil
1. What was the main type of energy used in the US 65 years ago? What is it today?
2. What does BPO and APO stand for?
A. Buying Peak Oil and Attaining Peak Oil
B. Before Play-Offs and After Play-Offs
C. Before Peak Oil and After Peak Oil
D. Bulgarian Peak Oil and American Peak Oil
3. Which statement best defines peak oil?
A. When the oil available in the world is approaching its maximum capacity but hasn’t quit gotten there yet
B. When the rate of oil discovery in the world has reached its maximum and is beginning a decline
C. When the rate of oil discovery in the world is at its minimum and has more to go
D. When the oil available in the world is at 10% of its peak
4. What proof in the oil industry shows that we are currently in the era of APO?
A. Rate of oil being extracted from wells worldwide is on the decline
B. Rate of oil being extracted from oil wells worldwide is on the increase
C. Rate of oil being extracted from oil wells worldwide is at a standstill
D. We are not in the age of APO but still at the BPO era
5. How is this proof being expressed to the regular consumer (you and I)? ____________________________________
6. Write a 2-3 sentence (complete, grammatically correct sentences, please) reaction to this first section. What did you
learn?
II.
Food and Energy
Select whether True or False
7. An energy crisis is also a food crisis.
8. As fuel prices increase, the cost of growing, harvesting and transporting food crops becomes less costly.
9. When crops are planted for producing fuel, the cost of livestock feed and food becomes more expensive.
10. The problem with producing biofuel from food crops is that its net energy is low.
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11. Difference between average wage and real wage? Match the right term with the right statement.
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The sum of all the wages earned in a population divided by that population – earning power
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The true value of how much the wage can actually buy – buying power
12. Inflation is when the prices of basic goods and services increases while the average wage has declined.
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True or False
13. From the studies by archaeologists of all the past great societies in human history, which statement best concludes
their demise?
A. Plate tectonics swallowed societies whole
C. Meteorites completely demolished the society
B. Everyone froze to death in Ice Ages
D. Society overindulged and overused available resources
14. How far does the average food on a plate travel? _______________miles
15. Why? ______________________________________________
III.
Historical Perspective
16. The Industrial Revolution began about 200 years ago. How did the global population numbers change over time?
1850 _____________
2007 ________________
2010 ____________________
The term for this type of growth is _____________________________
17. What is the problem with this human population growth and oil? ________________________________________
18. What is the assumption that we all believe in that seems to allow us to continue population growth at its current
rate?
19. What is the eventual predicament of continuing our current habits?
20. Write a 2-3 sentence reflection on what the current state of the earth is and where it might be going.
IV.
Economics of Consumerism
21. Why are nations willing to loan us money?
22. Which industry has so successfully promoted the lifestyle we currently enjoy? _____________________________
23. What do you think about this segment? Do you agree or disagree? Support your statements, PLEASE!
V.
Ecological Collapse
Use a diagram to show how a positive feedback loop would work with the following scenarios
24. melting of ice sheets
25. melting ice shelf
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