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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE COMPETITION

PRELIMINARY ROUND 2011
The competition is worth 100 points and is in two parts, multiple choice and essay:

Your team has 2 hours to complete both parts

Part 1 25 multiple-choice questions

Write your answer, in ink, A, B or C in the answer box on right of this paper for each question
Each question is worth 2 marks

Part 2 an essay on the topic indicated. This must be 200 words or LESS. The essay is worth 50 marks

The decisions of the judges is final

PART 1
Q A
1 Most countries use coal to
generate electricity. Which of
the following countries has the
highest percentage of its
electricity produced from coal
2 The term CCS is commonly used
in energy and Government
circles in the UK. CCS stands for
3 The principle purpose of the UK
Research Councils Energy
Programme is to ensure that
the
4 CO2 from aircraft movements
and shipping account for what
percentage of global CO2
emissions?
5 The Carbon Reduction
Commitment (CRC) energy
efficiency scheme is the new
mandatory government carbon
trading scheme for large, non-
energy intensive organisations.
What is its main aim?
6 Methane and carbon dioxide can
be produced from
microorganisms acting on
animal waste in anaerobic
B C Answer
United Kingdom United States of India
America
Clean Coal Sources Carbon Capture and Carbon and Coal Sinks
Storage
UK meets its energy and UK starts a replacement UK has a balanced
environmental targets Nuclear Power Station power generation
programme as soon as programme
possible
10-15% 15-20% 20-25%
To encourage To encourage To encourage
organisations to take organisations to take organisations to get
energy efficiency energy efficiency their employees to
measures to reduce their measures to reduce reduce energy
carbon dioxide emissions their carbon dioxide consumption and carbon
(CO2) from electricity, emissions (CO2) by dioxide emissions (CO2)
gas and oil consumption using more public at home
transport
Conditions where oxygen Conditions where Conditions where
is naturally present at a oxygen is added, to natural oxygen is absent
level of about 20% increase it above the
natural conditions, to
 conditions. What are anaerobic about 35%
conditions?
7 A proposed biomass power Nottingham: population Doncaster: population Sheffield: population
station at Drax, North Yorkshire 280,000 70,000 530,000
would have an output of 290
megawatts. This would supply
the electricity needs of a city
the size of:
8 The UK plans to increase its 8% 18% 28%
power generation from biomass
plants. Fuel for biomass power
stations in the UK usually from
three sources UK woodlands
and farms, recovered wood and
imported wood products. By
2025 the UK will be able to
supply how much from UK
woodland and forests?
9 It is estimated that 45% of Eastern Siberia Central Siberia Western Siberia
Russias off-shore hydrocarbon
reserves can be found in the
Kara Sea in the Russian Arctic.
The Kara Sea lies off the coast
of:
10 The latest IPCC Report predicts Six million people Sixty million people Six hundred million
a global sea level rise of one people
metre by the year 2100. This
will place at risk low lying areas
populated by:
11 Overall greenhouse gases have The time greenhouse The time the warming The time greenhouse
a latency period of about 30 gases take to travel from affect on the earth from gases will continue to be
years. A latency period is: the earths surface to the greenhouse gases lasts released into the
upper atmosphere atmosphere
12 It is predicted that one of the
following global events would
happen if the average global
temperature increase by 2100
was 2-3 centigrade
13 What is a national ecological
footprint
All sea ice in the Arctic The oceans would turn Produce the danger of
and Antarctic would more acidic and runaway warming
disappear permanently probably destroy coral confining humans to
reefs living in polar regions
and high mountains
A measure of the amount A measure of the A measure of the
of carbon dioxide diversity and range of amount of consumption
emitted by a country plants and animals of resources needed to
present naturally in a sustain the population
country of a country

14 Transport is the fastest- Aircraft Trucks and Lorries Cars

growing source of greenhouse
gases. Which of the following
categories is the greatest
emitter of greenhouse gases
15 Aircraft emit the majority of Make little difference to Reduce the overall Double the impact
their greenhouse gases high in the overall effect on impact because they are because they are
the atmosphere. Does this greenhouse gases in the released so high in the released so high in the
atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere
16 There is a current trend for 20% 30% 40%
Green Building. A green
building will reduce energy
costs of a conventional building
by about how much?
17 Evidence from satellite 3 metres 6 metres 12 metres
information shows the
Greenland ice sheet is
beginning to melt more rapidly.
If the entire ice sheet were to
melt it would raise global sea
 level by approximately:
18 90% of the annual ice loss on
the Antarctic ice sheet occurs
through:
19 A Moulin is:
20 A survey of young members of
the Communication Workers
Union (CWU) found their
greatest concerns were about:
21 Combined Heat and Power
Generation is
22 Embodied Energy is
23 Carbon Offsetting refers to the
principle that
24 The term Carbon Capture and
Storage is commonly used in
energy and Government circles
in the UK to imply
25 The Renewables Obligation is
Discharge by rapid Evaporation by the heat Lack of replacement by
movement of ice streams of the sun snowfall
and outlet glaciers
A type of windmill A vertical tunnel in an A new form of
ice sheet sustainable rapid transit
in urban areas
Climate Change Annual Pay Awards House Prices
a system that recovers a system that produces a system that uses the
the heat produced as a equal amounts of heat heat of the sun to
by-product of electricity and power produce power
generation
the energy used in the theoretical energy the latent energy
manufacturing, packaging obtainable from an contained within a
and transporting a power plant moving object
product, material or
service
a company or individual a company or individual a company or individual
can mitigate or even can exist without carbon can exist entirely on
entirely neutralise the carbon based products
effects of their CO2
emissions
Capturing and storing CO2 Capturing and storing Capturing and storing
in a geologically sound CO2 to enhance growth CO2 so it can be used
underground storage site in food crops for the chemical
industry
the legal requirement for the legal requirement the legal requirement
UK energy providers to for all households to for all UK households to
source 8% percent of recycle their domestic renew their electrical
 their energy from waste goods with A rated
renewable sources products

PART 2 ESSAY
Question: How would you improve the Carbon Footprint of your organisation/school/college?