Unit 7
The more harmful type of particulate matter between PM10 and PM2.5.
What is PM2.5?
A species whose presence, absence or abundance reflects a specific environmental condition.
What is an indicator species?
The melting of permafrost leads to a ______ feedback loop.
What is positive?
A global agreement to phase CFCs out of production in refrigerators, aerosols and other uses.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
What is the environment?
When cooler air is trapped beneath warmer air so that convection doesn’t cary pollutants up & away.
What is a thermal inversion?
A pollutant that enters environment form an easily identified and confined place.
What is a point source pollutant?
CO2 levels increase, leading to a decrease in pH in the ocean. This process is called ______.
What is ocean acidification?
An act that was made to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution in the nation's waters in order to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the water in the United States.
What is the Clean Water Act?
A Marvel superhero that wears a suit of armor. Dies in Avengers: Endgame.
Who is Iron Man?
A type of bedrock that has natural buffering to acid rain.
What is limestone?
Increasing concentrations of fat-soluble compounds like methylmercury and POPs in each level up the trophic pyramid or food web/chain.
What is biomagnification?
A species not native to an area, introduced often by human transport that are highly competitive for resources and can thrive in their non-native habitats.
What is an invasive species?
The United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
What is the Clean Air Act?
A Japanese noodle dish typically served in a broth. Widely eaten by college students around the world.
What is ramen?
The 6 criteria air pollutants include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, tropospheric ozone, and ______.
What is lead?
The toxic form of mercury that is made by bacteria in water sources.
What is methylmercury?
Measure of how much a given molecule of gas can contribute to the warming of the atmosphere over a 100 year period, relative to CO2.
What is Global Warming Potential?
A United States law giving USFWS power to designate species as endangered or threatened, monitor trade, and purchase land critical to these species’ habitats.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
What is HIPPCO? and this threats what?
Habitat destruction
Invasive species
Pollution
Overexploitation
Treats on Biodiversity
VOCs react with NO to form ______, which combines with O3 to form photochemical smog.
What are photochemical oxidants?
The photosynthetic algae that is in symbiosis with coral and gives it its color.
What is zooxanthellae?
The chemical that was initially used to replace CFCs.
What are HCFCs?
An act that set maximum contaminant levels and treatment requirements for over 90 different contaminants in drinking water.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
What is K and R selected species
k - Few offspring are slow growing with long generations time
R- Many offspring quick to mature with short life span