Water Acts
Regulates the discharge of pollutants into U.S. surface waters (lakes/rivers) and sets wastewater standards.
What is the Clean Water Act? CWA
Primary pollutants SOx and NOx are regulated by this act.
What is the Clean Air Act?
GPP after energy has been expended through respiration.
What is the net primary productivity? NPP
Identifies and protects threatened and endangered species (and their habitats) in the U.S. from extinction.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This disease with the well known vector, the mosquito, has killed millions of people of the centuries. Mostly in tropical warmer climates.
What is malaria?
Empowers the EPA to set maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for pollutants in public water systems.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act? SDWA
This act is designed to restore the health of the thinning stratospheric ozone layer by the year 2040. Good news for your skin!
What is the Montreal Protocol?
A population in a small town has a growth rate of 10%. How long before the population doubles?
What is 7 years?
International agreement that bans the international trade of threatened/endangered plants and animals.
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora?
CITES
A disease that has not been around for decade but then shows up.
What is an emergent infectious disease?
Holds chemical and petroleum industries accountable by imposing a tax that can fund the clean-up of abandoned hazardous waste sites. Referred to as the Superfund. Clean up your mess!
What is CERCLA? Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability ACT.
Love Canal in Niagara Falls- hazardous waste landfill covered with topsoil and then used as a site for a school. Cancer causing waste were found. 1983 it was listed as a Superfund site.
The Clean Air Act hates the incomplete combustion of this primary pollutant.
What is carbon monoxide?
Global population growth rate as a percentage.
What is CBR-CDR divided by 10?
Don't think about crossing state lines with an illegal bird or mammal! This act was passed in 1900 to regulate this illegal activity.
What is the Lacey Act?
This is lung disease caused by a bacterium and spreads when a person coughs.
What is tuberculosis?
The U.S government has exempted fracking for natural gas from this act, despite the fact that fracking injects a variety of harmful chemicals into the groundwater. Not so tasty.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
Hold your breath! This act has you covered!
EPA set air quality standards for six common “criteria pollutants”: particulate matter, ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and lead.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This calculation allows scientist to determine how much of a radioactive element will remain after a certain amount of time.
What is half-life?
Prohibits the killing of all marine mammals in the United States. Orcas for the win!
What is the Marine Mammal Act?
Chicken farms with very large numbers are at risk for the spread of this disease that normally only infects avian species, is now jumping to human hosts.
What is bird flu?
Designed to protect human health and the natural environment by reducing or eliminating the generation of hazardous waste. Allowed for "cradle to grave" tracking. Works with the EPA to keep a list of businesses while tracking their "generations" of hazardous waste disposal.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act? RCRA
International agreement that establishes a goal for global GHG emissions.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
(Final value- initial value) / (final year-initial year)
What is the annual rate of change?
The killing and forced extinction of the Dodo bird was an example this cause of declining biodiversity.
What is overexploitation?
As the planet continues to warm, the concern is for this species (and pathogen vector) to expand its range towards the poles.
What is the mosquito?