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The Social Costs of Resource Use — Unit test

Question 3 • * FL-2001340-Environmental Science Sem 2

Which of the following statements about entropy is true?

Answer
A
Entropy increases going from one trophic level to another.
B
Increases in entropy lead to reversible processes.
C
A system’s work output is limited when changes in entropy do not occur.
D
All of the above

Explanation

Energy transfers between trophic levels are inefficient: some energy is released as heat, increasing entropy. Increasing entropy does not make a process reversible, so statement b is false. A process with no entropy change can still produce work, so statement c is not generally true; therefore, “all of the above” is also false.

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