SOLUTIONS
Pollution can result when which of the following types of agents is/are introduced into the air, water, or
soil? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Biological
Chemical
Physical
Which of the following operations causes the most pollution?
2 - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Industrial
Municipal
Transportation
3
Which of the following materials is the primary municipal pollutant? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Raw or
inadequately treated sewage
4
Which of the following modes of transportation creates most air pollutants? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -
Motor vehicles
Which, if any, of the following effects of pollution is the most serious? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Biological
Steel erodes faster than normal when exposed to which of the following air pollutants? -
✅✅✅CORRECT -Sulfur oxides
Most pesticides fall into which of the following categories? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Non selective
What is the primary pollution concern of Navy personnel? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Shipboard wastes
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Which of the following terms identifies abatement? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Lowering
10
Under the Clean Air Act, what government body has the primary responsibility for assuring air quality? -
✅✅✅CORRECT -Each state
11
Virtually all Navy ships have some type of sanitation device installed. Which of the following types of
systems retains sewage on board for discharge ashore or in waters where discharging is allowed? -
✅✅✅CORRECT -Collection, holding, and transfer
12
When operating sanitation devices in foreign waters, Navy ships comply with which of the following
requirements? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Status of Forces Agreement
13
Vessels may not discharge unpulped trash within what minimum distance from the U.S. coastline? -
✅✅✅CORRECT -25 nautical miles
14
Submarines may discharge negatively buoyant compacted trash not less than 12 nm from the U.S.
coastline only if the water depth is greater than how many fathoms? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -1,000
15
The Navy's land management program involves which of the following efforts? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Soil
and water conservation
16
From what part of the world does the U.S. import most of its crude oil? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Middle
East