Water pollution
Air Pollution
Ecosystems
Energy
Toss up
100
The mechanical process of sewer treatment
What is primary sewage treatment
100
Law that regulates air pollution
What is clean air act
100
Classification of organisms that eats both plants and animals
What is omnivore
100
The "dirtiest" fuel to burn
What is coal
100
The shape of an age structure diagram from a country with ZPG
200
The result of cultural eutrophication that causes death in fish.
What is lack of dissolved oxygen
200
Of the following it does not increase carbon dioxide: respiration, photosynthesis, combustion, decomposition
What is photosynthesis
200
A group fo individuals of the same species occupying agiven area at the same time
What is population
200
The number of new nuclear power plants built in the US since 1979
What is zero
200
The term for an organism's "way of life"
What is a niche
300
The acceptable level of coliform bacteria for drinking water.
What is zero
300
The purpose of stratospheric ozone
What is screen out uv radiation
300
Example of an ecosystem with one of the highest net primary productivities
300
The world's most abundant fossil fuel
What is coal
300
The deepest part of the ocean
What is the abyss
400
Examples of inorganic nutrients that cause eutrophication
What is nitrogen and phosphorus
400
Not an example of a VOC: methane, CFC, CO, benzene, propane
What is CO
400
The most important factors in determining climate
What is temperature and precipitation
400
The percentage of energy which does not move on to the next trophic level
What is 90
400
A lid of warm air on top of cooler stagnant air.
What is thermal inversion
500
Type of lake with few minerals and low productivity
What is oligotrophic
500
When ozone is found here it contributes to the formation of smog
What is troposphere
500
The process which converts nitrogen gas into ammonia
What is nitrogen fixation
500
The primary source of energy for the sun
What is nuclear fusion
500
During this climatic event upwellings of cold, nutrient rich water are suppressed.
What is El Nino
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