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Industrial Pollution
This set of Energy & Environment Management Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Industrial Pollution”. 1. What is called for the pollution that can be traced directly to industrial activity? a) Soil pollution b) Water pollution c) Air pollution d) Industrial pollution 2. Which of the following are the largest contributors to global ... Read more
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This set of Energy & Environment Management Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Industrial Pollution”.
1. What is called for the pollution that can be traced directly to industrial activity?
a) Soil pollution b) Water pollution c) Air pollution
d) Industrial pollution
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2. Which of the following are the largest contributors to global pollution?
a) Soil pollution
b) Industrial pollution
c) Radioactive pollution
d) Water pollution View Answer
3. Which of the following pollution majorly responsible for pollution in the United States?
a) Soil pollution b) Water pollution c) Air pollution
d) Industrial pollution
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4. Which of the following is the consequence of industrial pollution?
a) Increase in the water level in seas
b) Releases of the hazardous radiations
c) Increase in the animals in forests
d) Global warming View Answer
5. How do industrial pollution results in water pollution?
a) Dumping of various waste products from industries
b) Taking water bodies places to built industries
c) Industries which uses all the water from the water bodies and cause scarcity of water
d) Building of purification unit in the industries
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6. Industrial pollution doesn’t contribute to air pollution.
a) True b) False View Answer
7. Which one of the following is the prime factor towards soil pollution?
a) Soil erosion b) Floods
c) Dumping of industrial wastes
d) Using land for irrigation
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8. Which one of the following industries produced Sulfur dioxide and flu ash as pollutants?
a) Textile industries
b) Cottage industries
c) Thermal industries
d) Coal industries View Answer
9. Which one of the following is a mechanical means of treating industrial effluents?
a) Oxidation b) Chlorination
c) Recycling of waste
d) Sedimentation View Answer advertisement
10. Which one of the following is not normally a pollutant?
a) Carbon dioxide b) Carbon monoxide c) Sulphur dioxide d) Hydrocarbons View Answer
11. Why industries pollute water?
a) Because they use water in large quantities
b) Because they release all the pollutants to water
c) Because industries don’t use water
d) Because water is an universal solvent
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12. Which one of the following is the cause of industrial pollution?
a) Modern technologies
b) Efficient waste disposal
c) Efficient government policies
d) Unplanned industrial growth
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13. Which one of the following is the main cause of air pollution?
a) Decrease in the factories
b) Increase in the factories
c) Increase in the seawater level
d) Increase in the modern technologies
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14. Industries require raw materials to be extracted from the ground such minerals cause soil pollution.
a) True b) False View Answer
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Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
Includes information on global greenhouse gas emissions trends, and by type of gas, by source, and by country.
Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
On This Page:Global Emissions by Gas
Global Emissions by Economic Sector
Trends in Global Emissions
Emissions by Country
Global Emissions by Gas
At the global scale, the key greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are:
Source: IPCC (2014) Exit based on global emissions from 2010. Details about the sources included in these estimates can be found in the Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Exit
Carbon dioxide (CO2): Fossil fuel use is the primary source of CO2. CO2 can also be emitted from direct human-induced impacts on forestry and other land use, such as through deforestation, land clearing for agriculture, and degradation of soils. Likewise, land can also remove CO2 from the atmosphere through reforestation, improvement of soils, and other activities.Methane (CH4): Agricultural activities, waste management, energy use, and biomass burning all contribute to CH4 emissions.Nitrous oxide (N2O): Agricultural activities, such as fertilizer use, are the primary source of N2O emissions. Fossil fuel combustion also generates N2O.Fluorinated gases (F-gases): Industrial processes, refrigeration, and the use of a variety of consumer products contribute to emissions of F-gases, which include hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6).Black carbon is a solid particle or aerosol, not a gas, but it also contributes to warming of the atmosphere. Learn more about black carbon and climate change on our Causes of Climate Change page.
Global Emissions by Economic Sector
Global greenhouse gas emissions can also be broken down by the economic activities that lead to their production.[1]
Source: IPCC (2014); Exit based on global emissions from 2010. Details about the sources included in these estimates can be found in the Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Electricity and Heat Production (23% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions): The burning of coal, natural gas, and oil for electricity and heat is the largest single source of global greenhouse gas emissions.Industry (24% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions): Greenhouse gas emissions from industry primarily involve fossil fuels burned on site at facilities for energy. This sector also includes emissions from chemical, metallurgical, and mineral transformation processes not associated with energy consumption and emissions from waste management activities. (Note: Emissions from industrial electricity use are excluded and are instead covered in the Electricity and Heat Production sector.)Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (22% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions): Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector come mostly from agriculture (cultivation of crops and livestock) and deforestation. This estimate does not include the CO2 that ecosystems remove from the atmosphere by sequestering carbon in biomass, dead organic matter, and soils, which offset approximately 20% of emissions from this sector.[2]Transportation (15% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions): Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily involve fossil fuels burned for road, rail, air, and marine transportation. Almost all (95%) of the world's transportation energy comes from petroleum-based fuels, largely gasoline and diesel.Buildings (6% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions): Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector arise from onsite energy generation and burning fuels for heat in buildings or cooking in homes. (Note: Emissions from electricity use in buildings are excluded and are instead covered in the Electricity and Heat Production sector.)Other Energy (10% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions): This source of greenhouse gas emissions refers to all emissions from the Energy sector which are not directly associated with electricity or heat production, such as fuel extraction, refining, processing, and transportation.Note on emissions sector categories.
Trends in Global Emissions
Source: Boden, T.A., Marland, G., and Andres, R.J. (2017). Global, Regional, and National Fossil-Fuel CO2Emissions. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A. doi 10.3334/CDIAC/00001_V2017.
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have significantly increased since 1900. Since 1970, CO2 emissions have increased by about 90%, with emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributing about 78% of the total greenhouse gas emissions increase from 1970 to 2011. Agriculture, deforestation, and other land-use changes have been the second-largest contributors.[1]
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