Environmental Engineering Reference
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QUESTIONS
1. What must one know about a field before developing a sampling plan?
2. Would the area to be sampled be expected to be larger with a mobile or immobile
contaminant or pollutant?
3. Describe the characteristics of an A horizon. What common component in the A
horizon might have the greatest effect on the analytical results?
4. Of the four dimensions of a soil, which is uncontrollable or is constantly changing in
one direction?
5. What information is usually available from soil maps and soil surveys?
6. Explain what the following abbreviations stand for:
(a) BMP
(b) CFC
(c) MDL
(d) VOC
(e) O 3
7. Explain why ppm is such a handy unit when dealing with soil or solum material. If a
sample of soil is found to contain 10 ppm naphthalene, how much naphthalene in grams
is found in a hectare furrow slice of this soil?
8. What are the units used to express bulk density in soil media? What is an equivalent
older unit?
9. GPS and GIS go together. Explain how.
10. What three statistical tools are commonly used in dealing with environmental
sampling?
11. Knowing what is likely to be present in an environmental sample can be important
in three ways. Explain.
 
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