Waste
Any unwanted human material or substance
What is waste?
What is the law of conservation of energy?
The day by day temperatures and precipitation
What is weather?
Human source of air pollution
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
The two kinds of weathering
What are physical and chemical?
Toxic hazardous waste
Which type of hazardous waste are harmful when inhaled?
The form of energy that includes systems of motion.
What is mechanical energy?
The sun, global wind patterns, oceans
What are the major causes of climate?
The five forms of pollution
What are nutrient pollution, toxic-chemical pollution, sediment pollution, thermal pollution, and biological pollution?
A complex plant-supporting system of disintegrated rock, remains, and wastes of organisms, water, gases, nutrients, and microorganisms
What is soil?
Close to 100 pounds
How many pounds of hazardous material does the average home contain?
What is natural gas?
The term used to describe the change in direction of prevailing winds in the Southern Pacific
What is El Niño?
This form of pollution is caused by pathogens
What is biological pollution?
What is Desertification?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse, Reimagine, Repair
What are the six R’s?
The breaking of a nucleus into two smaller nuclei
What is nuclear fission?
The cause for global ocean circulation
What is the thermohaline gradient?
The Act that created standards for pollutant levels in water sources
What is the Clean Water Act?
The most productive type of soil
What is loam soil?
CERCLA and RCRA
____ is responsible for Superfund sites and ____ is responsible for tracking materials “from cradle to grave”
Nuclear incident due to 9.0 earthquake and tsunamis
What is the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident?
___ would lead to ___ which was an International agreement to limit global climate change to 2 degrees celsius
What are the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Accords?
Chemicals called ____ caused an “ozone hole” to form over Antarctica
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
Categorize soil horizons from topsoil to lower horizons
What are horizons O, A, E, B, C, and R?