This compound can be both an air and water pollutant and causes ocean acidification and contributes to the greenhouse effect
What is carbon dioxide
100
This is the chemical formula for atmospheric ozone
What is O3?
100
This law sets maximum amounts of allowable levels of contaminants in water
What is The Clean Water Act?
100
Thermal Pollution causes this element to become less abundant for living things in a body of water.
What is oxygen?
100
this term refers to the oxygen needed or consumed by biotic factors in an aquatic ecosystem
What is BOD, biological oxygen demand
200
This term refers to a single location where pollution enters an aquatic ecosystem
What is point source pollution?
200
An element released when coal is burned and that can contribute to the formation of acid rain
What is Sulfur?
200
This law sets maximum allowable contaminate levels for pollutants in drinking water with an emphasis on ground water regulations.
What is Safe Drinking Water Act?
200
The two compounds responsible for acid rain
Sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides?
200
This term refers to any pollution or circumstance that causes a body of water to increase in temperature
What is Thermal pollution
300
Refers to wide scale, landscape area pollution usually associated with run-off from many locations
What is non-point source pollution?
300
What compound is created daily, most tangibly in the form of car exhaust, that can cause serious respiratory problems in humans
What is Carbon Monoxide?
300
This law sets limits on the amount of pollutants that can be emitted into the air
What is The Clean Air Act?
300
These gases together are often refered to as greenhouse gases and are part of a positive feedback loop that in turn increases the amount of all four
What is water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen?
300
nitrogen dioxide and oxygen together form this chemical, which is a major part of acid rain
What is HNO3, Nitric Acid
400
This term refers to an excess of nitrogen compounds in an aquatic ecosytem due to human activities. Eventually leads to algae blooms in water.
What is cultural eutrophication?
400
Refers to the suspended solids in the air released from burning of diesel fuels.
What is particulate air pollution
400
This law attempts to control non-point source pollution in water, therefore this law is often considered by the EPA when products are being developed and sold
What is Water Quality Act?
400
Ocean acidification is caused when these two chemicals combine at an unnatural rate
What is carbon dioxide and water
400
this concept explains that as the atmosphere warms, greenhouse gasses become more abundant, which in turn causes the atmosphere to warm even more
What is a positive feedback loop
500
A phase in sewage treatment in which specific contaminates are targeted to be removed chemically
What is tertiary treatment?
500
Tropospheric ozone
What is photochemical smog?
500
An environmental disaster which became the first Superfund site.
What is Love Canal
500
Coal mining and burning cause these chemicals to become abnormaly abundant in an ecosystem
What is mercury and lead
500
Highly publicized the release of ozone-depleting CFC's into the atmosphere and lead to the banning of the pollutant in most countries.