Protects plants and wildlife by prohibiting interstate trade in organisms that have been illegally taken or sold.
What is Lacey Act
100
Establishes drinking water standards for tap water saftey and requires rules fro groundwater protection, provides funds for system upgrades and public "right to know"
What is Safe Drinking Water Act
100
Nuclear power plant accident in Pennsylvania. Caused a partial core meltdown due to equipmemnt and human errors. What is the name of this power plant.
What is Three Mile Island Plant
100
How are components of oil seperated?
What is distillation? (seperated by their boiling points)
100
True or False
Having a pourous and permeable liner is vital for a secure chemical landfill disposal site.
What is False
200
Prohibits hunting, taking, capturing, killing, selling, buying, or shipping any bird, egg, or nest that is protected. Requires hunters to purchse a Federal Hunting stamp.
What is Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act
200
Seeks to prevent the creation of toxic waste dumps by setting standards for mangement of hazardous waste. Sets cradle to grave requirements.
What is Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
200
Exxon Valdez spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil in this area. Effects on the wildlife were catastrophic. What is the name of the area?
What is Prince William Sound, Alaska
200
What are the 2 most important causes for the reduction in the world's biodiversity?
What is habitat destruction and introduction of invasive species?
200
International agreement that was set to phase out ozone-depleting sunstances like CFC's
What is Montreal Protocol
300
Identifies threateaned and endagered species in the U.S. and protects those species from killing, trappin, uprooting, or engaging in commerce. Also protects their habitats.
What is Endagered Speciese Act
300
International agreement that sets limits on emissions of greenhouse gasses (not signed by the U.S.)
What is Kyoto Protocol
300
Since the early 1950's, hundred of Japanese have died in Minimata Bay, Japan from mercury-tainted fish. What is the name of the company that released wastewater contaminated with mercury into the bay?
What is Chisso Corporation Chemical Plant.
300
What removes SO2 and particulate matter from smoke stack emissions from power plants.
What is a wet scrubber
300
The practice in water-short areas of mimicking nature by replacing green lawns with vegetation adapted to a dry climate, which reduces water use, labor, fertilizer and fuel use is called _________________.
What is xeriscaping
400
Regulates the effectiveness of pesticides and protects pesticides consumers, applicators, and the environment. Makes sure that all pesticides are registered, approved, and labeled.
What is Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act
400
International treaty that lists species that cannot be comercially traded as live specimens or wildlife products to protect their survival
What is CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endagered Species)
400
This site became the first Superfund Site in 1983 because of the hazards from the toxic chemical waste that was disposed in the area before it became a residential area. Hooker Chemical and Platics Corporations is the company that buried their toxic waste. What is the name of the area?
What is Love Canal, NY
400
What layer of the atmoshpere has the coldest temperatures?
What is the mesophere
400
Name 5 chemicals that are know to biomagnify in food chains.
What is DDT, Dioxins, Lead, Mercury, PCB's
500
Prohibits all municipal sewage sludge and industrial waste dumping into the ocean.
What is Ocean Dumping Ban Act
500
Requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision-,making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions; requires agencies to prepare and Environmental Impact Statement detailing impact to the surrounding environment. Established President's Council on Environmental Quality.
What is National Environmental Policy Act
500
Poisonous methyl isocyanate gad was released accidentally by a Union Carbide pesticide Plamnt killing about 5,000 people and causing serious health effect for 50,000 -60,000 people. Where did this happen?
What is Bhopal, India
500
Urbanization increases runoff, reduces infiltration which recharges groundwater supplies, increases risk of flooding and modifies water quality are all examples of how urbanization affects what?
What is the water cycle (hydrologic cycle)
500
reduces an array of emissions from an internal combustion engine, for example: carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides.