Topic 1
The movement concerned with protecting our environment
Environmentalism
In most cities, these are the causes of the worst air pollution
vehicles (cars or trucks)
This act set up ways to save animal species that were under threat of dying out completely
Endangered Species Act of 1973
The earliest example of a written code of law was developed in ______
Babylonia
Justinian's set of laws that became the basis of law for the Byzantine Empire was known as
The Justinian Code
The technical name for garbage
Solid waste
Efforts that build economic growth but do not harm the environment
Sustainable development
Laws
This ruler simplified Roman law into an orderly body of rules
Justinian I
Napoleon brought his unified law code, known as this, to the lands he controlled int the 1800s.
Napoleonic Code
A phrase that stands for "not in my backyard"
NIMBY
These types of laws are enforceable by communities and authorities
A ____ law gives equal treatment to all people who are in similar situations
Fair
This was an ancient group of people that lived near the eastern Mediterranean coast and followed a specific set of laws. They forbade acts such as murder and theft.
Israelites
The most important influence on the American legal system
English law
Recycling
This act set standards for smoke from factories and exhaust from cars
The Clean Air Act of 1970
True/False -- If a law is not easy to understand, people may disobey it without realizing that they are
True
The most important laws that develop in the Western world came from ancient ____
Rome
Rulings set forth earlier in similar cases
Precedent
The careful preservation and protection of natural resources
Conservation
Laws created by legislative bodies such as Parliament
Statutes
This Act puts limits on the dumping of pollutants into the nation's lakes and rivers
Clean Water Act of 1972
The National Environmental Policy Act was signed into law in 1970, creating this
The EPA
The Code of Hammurabi was written in the Akkadian language in script known as
Cuneiform