Wastewater Treatment
The step of treatment that involves mechanical removal.
What is Primary Treatment?
All of the living and non-living things with which an organism interacts.
What is environment?
Resources that are virtually unlimited or can be replenished by the environment in relatively short periods of time.
Regulated the discharge of pollutant in water sources and sets water quality standards. Enforced by the EPA.
What is the Clean Water Act?
Oversees the emission of atmospheric pollutants and sets standards for emission. Enforced by the EPA.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This step involves biological treatment of organic matter by bacteria.
What is Secondary Treatment?
Study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we effect our environment.
What is environmental science?
Measure of the environmental impacts of an individual. Typically measured in hectares of biologically productive land needed to support that individual’s lifestyle.
What is ecological footprint?
Aims to conserve and protect endangered species and their habitats. Oversees hunting.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
International agreement on the trade of threatened species.
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)?
This step involves treatment to remove excess pollutants and nutrients (N and P).
What is Tertiary Treatment?
Substances (materials) and energy sources that we take from the environments and rely upon to survive.
What are natural resources?
This represents the largest volume of municipal solid waste in the US.
What is paper?
Prohibits the addition of cancerous substances into food.
What is the Delaney Clause of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act?
Protects public drinking water sources, including underground water sources. Sets standards and enforces drinking water quality.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
Name one component of primary treatment and describe its function.
Various
Of or relating to humans
What is anthropogenic?
Services provided to use by the environment, such as: air and water purification, soil formation, climate regulation, pollination, and waste recycling.
What are ecosystem services?
International treaty among industrialized nations to set carbon emissions standards. Purpose to to mitigate global climate change.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
Oversees waste and hazardous waste disposal. Regulated by the EPA.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?
Name one component of secondary treatment and describe its function.
Various
The carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, phosphorous cycle, and water cycle are examples of...
What are biogeochemical cycles?
An economics term. Compares the estimated costs of a proposed action with its benefits.
What is a cost-benefit analysis?
Protects the ozone layer by banning emissions of ozone-depleting substances. By preserving ozone layer, we avoid many cases of skin cancer and cataracts.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
Federal fund to cleanup hazardous waste sites and spills, also known as “Superfund”.
What is Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)?