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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.
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True
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How much
conventional oil in P50 reserves were there in the world at the end of 1996,
according to the author's calculations?
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850 Gbo
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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.
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False
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About what year did annual
oil production peak for the world outside of the Persian Gulf.
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1992
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What is the
so-called "recovery factor"?
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new
technologies enable industries to recover larger portions of oil from a basin.
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Unconventional oil refers
to...
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Other sources of oil,
such as the tar sands of Alberta, or the sludge oil in Venezuala.
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The rate at which a country
can produce oil rises to a maximum and then declines
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When about half it's oil
is gone.
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Between 1975 and 1995, the
green revolution has been LEAST successful in which region?
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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The green revolution
originally described
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The development of high
yield varieties of rice and wheat.
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Critics contend
that the green revolution has led to
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A. polluted water ways.
B. excessive salt build-up in soils.
C. groundwater depletion.
D. all of the above.
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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.
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True
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It could be argued that the
green revolution has saved huge areas of forests that otherwise would have been
needed for farming.
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True
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The green revolution is
most closely associated with
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the
development and use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides.
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Nature's
renewable freshwater is mainly the consequence of...
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the sun (solar power).
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Accessible
runoff is defined (according to Postel et al.) as...
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The
proportion of total runoff that is available for human use
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