Practice Final

Question 1

When is the Design Cycle Done?

Answer 1

Never, but must choose to stop iteration to bring a new technology into being

Question 2

Would the iphone 11 be an evolutionary or revolutionary product?

Answer 2

Evolutionary

Question 3

WhT type of project requirement would a law/regulation fall under?

Answer 3

Constraint

Question 4

When creating a work breakdown structure, how do you know you have sufficiently broken down a project. (Ie when which of these statements have been met would you stop adding more levels)?

Answer 4

When the lowest level task has a clear deliverable, one owner (that owner can assign multiple doers), and is estimated to take a few hours to a few days to complete.

Question 5

Which of the following is nit a dimension of the united nations human development index HDI?

Answer 5

Industrialization standards

Question 6

List three dimensions of the united nations human development index

Answer 6

Health dimensions
Education dimensions
Living standard dimensions

Question 7

If a 75.0 L water bucket is contaminated with 15.0 mg/L of pesticides and then dumped into a drinking reservoir of 9,000 containing no Aldrin, what is the concentration of pesticides in the drinking water?

Answer 7

0.12 mg/L

Question 8

You are creating a novel water filter and your riskiest assumption is weather the material will degrade with water contact over 100 hours. What type of prototype do you need

Answer 8

Feels like

Question 9

The triple bottom line does not include which of the following?

Answer 9

Appropriate technology

Question 10

What is included in the triple bottom line?

Answer 10

Environment impact, societal impact, economic impact

Question 11

In order to maximize sustainability, life cycle assessment should be done from?

Answer 11

Raw material extraction to end of life

Question 12

Based on henrys law, as the ocean temperature rise which of the following is true?

Answer 12

The solubility of 02 in water will decrease

Question 13

And recycling, converting discarded materials into some thing of greater value is known as______, well converting discarded material into lower value, quality, or functionality is known as_________, converting discarded materials into something of equal value is___________.

Answer 13

upcycling, downcycling, closed loop recycling

Question 14

You have designed a recycling plant that has the first stages is an air classifier, with of the following fractions what is the purity of the heavy glass bin?
Paper: 50 kg/hr Air classifier: 0
Glass: 20 kg/hr Air classifier: 0.9
Ferrous: 20kg/hr Air classifier: 0.15
Plastics: 20kg/hr Air classifier: 0.15

Answer 14

75%

Question 15

Using the HHV equation, what is the HHV of Toronto’s MSW in kilojoules per kilogram, assuming the composition of their waist is 25% rubber, 50% mixed food waste, and 25% paper. Please select the closest answer.

Answer 15

16790 KJ/kg

Question 16

What is the HHV of 1 kg waste that is 100% softwood?

Answer 16

17,000 kJ

Question 17

A waste to energy facility in Oregon converts 1,000,000 kg of MSW per year with an HHV of 17,500 kJ per kilogram, 20% moisture in the garbage and 5% of dry mass is hydrogen to electricity. What is the total of the 1,000,000 kg of waste per year.

Answer 17

16,133,600,000kJ

Question 18

Global warming occurs when excess greenhouse gases trap additional sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off earth surface.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Which of the following is a component of the ecological footprint?

Answer 19

Productive land for growing crops, productive land for grazing animals, productive land for harvesting timber, productive land for absorbing waste.

Question 20

What is the definition of bio capacity?

Answer 20

Amount of land and see available on earth to provide the resources to meet demand

Question 21

What can we conclude from the worlds current carrying capacity?

Answer 21

Our current caring capacity requires 1.7 earths to provide the resources we use and absorb our waste.

Question 22

The Kaya identity is an application of IPA to carbon emissions from energy sources that allows to predict future use and analyze total omissions over a period of time. Period. Which assumption is made by Kaya?

Answer 22

Exponential growth / decay of population
Exponential growth/ decay of affluence .
Exponential growth/decay of technology

Question 23

What ethical principle does the ethical philosophy of utilitarianism prioritize?

Answer 23

Beneficence and Nonmaleficence

Question 24

UBC is in Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional territorial of which indigenous people?

Answer 24

Musqueam

Question 25

UBC Okanogan campus is situated on the traditional territory of which indigenous people?

Answer 25

Sylix

Question 26

The Okanogan nation alliance includes community territories in

Answer 26

British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, USA.