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Ch 17 Review MCs

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What allocates resources?   supply and demand  
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What is considered to be the world's most important marine product?   algin  
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What tools do fishermen now employ to locate schools of fish?   satellite sensors, aerial photography, scouting vessels, and sonar  
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How is freshwater obtained as a marine resource?   desalination  
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What is the fastest-growing mariculture production?   shrimp  
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Why does oil seep to the surface from its source rock?   it is less dense than the surrounding sediments  
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What marine resource has been rendered uneconomical due to the cost of excavation?   manganese nodules  
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Why is the extraction of wind so effective over or near the ocean?   less stuff to get in the way; more steady  
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What is the petroleum found in marine sediments likely to have been formed from?   plankton  
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How much of the world's table salt is produced by the evaporation of seawater?   1/3  
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Geologists use _______ to view sediment layers, depth, and possible reservoir structures.   sound reflected off subsurface structures  
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What is the second most valuable marine resource?   sand and gravel  
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In theory, what are free-market economies based upon?   pure competition  
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What is the fastest-growing energy alternative to oil?   wind power  
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What legislative policy reduced the number of dolphin deaths associated with tuna fishing?   U.S. Marine Mammals Protection Act  
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How much of the world's crude oil is found on the seafloor?   35%  
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When did the harvesting of commercial whale species cease?   1987, when it became uneconomical  
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What did the United States Exclusive Economic Zone exclude from the original 1982 United Nations Treaty?   provision of shared high seas resources  
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Which United States location contributes to most of the exploitable sand?   Alaska  
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What is the main species of whale targeted by the Japanese and Norwegian whalers?   minke  
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What is not true of territorial waters?   bullets on separate paper  
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What kind of resource is waste disposal?   a nonextracted resource  
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What type of net has been particulary disruptive in the mistargeting of species?   drift net  
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What was first created in an effort to claim the continental shelf as belonging to the nation it was attached to?   Law of the Sea  
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What is the largest known reservoir of hydrocarbons on Earth?   methane-laced ice crystals or methane hydrate  
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What is bycatch?   animals that are unintentionally killed  
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Who is responsible for the consumption of approximately a quarter of the global oil supply?   United States  
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How much of the fish stocks are considered to be overfished?   65%  
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Why is methane hydrate not harvested for energy use?   it is expensive, dangerous, and disappears very fast  
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When a resource is present in a fixed amount, it is said to be:   nonrenewable  
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