Legislation Landmarks
The act that protects lake and stream quality?
What is the Clean water act.
This 2015 international accord aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, with efforts to keep it below 1.5 degrees.
What is the Paris Agreement.
This book helped to develop a conservation policy about banning DDT use?
What is Silent Spring
What large federal agency is responsible for protecting human health and the environment, regulates pollutants, and enforces environmental laws?
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
What is Conservation Policy?
What is The strategies to protect and restore natural areas, species, and ecosystems.
What is the act that gave legal protection for species at risk of extinction?
What is the Endangered Species Act.
This international treaty, established in 1973, regulates the trade of endangered species to ensure it does not threaten their survival.
What is CITIES.
The Creation of _______ helped to conserve the nurture, wilderness, and control wildlife populations.
What is the National Park service.
What NGO, founded by John Muir, advocates for environmental protection, including wilderness preservation and climate action?
What is the Sierra Club.
Targeted Resurch can have TWO types of effects. What are they?
What is Instrumental effects and Conceptual effects.
The policy that protects migratory bird species?
What is the Migratory Bird Act.
This global organization established key agreements like the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Paris Agreement, playing a crucial role in worldwide conservation policies.
What is The United Nations.
The movement that involves allowing nature to repair damaged ecosystems on its own?
What is the Rewilding movement.
What NGO (with a Panda Bear as the logo) works globally and nationally to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to biodiversity?
What is the World Wildlife Fund.
In the article, how many research questions were selected?
What is 40 questions.
What Act limits air pollution?
What is the Clean Air Act.
What law was created in the EU (European union) on the protection of nature restoration?
What is The Nature Restoration Law.
A Movement that deals with the prevention of wildlife trade?
What is the Illegal wildlife trade.
What government organization supports and raises funds for national parks and their preservation?
What is the National Park Foundation.
The article study focused on _______-based research.
What is Need-based research.
The Lacey Act involved the protection of what from illegal poaching?
What is the Fish and game.
This 1982 United Nations convention defines nations' rights and responsibilities in ocean use, including environmental protection and conservation of marine resources.
What is the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS)
This movement caused the policy to be adapted to prevent pollution contamination in the United states?
What is Love canal.
What agency within the U.S. administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres of land?
What is the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
There were 6 main criteria in the research question development. Name 1 of the 6 criteria?
What is
Be answerable through a realistic research design
Be answerable on the basis of facts rather than judgment
Be of spatial and temporal scale
Not be answerable simply with yes or no answers
Contain a subject of intervention
And increases the effectiveness of policy