Acts
Created in 1973 protects and recovers at risk species.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
Magma cools into igneous, erodes into sediments, compacts into sedimentary.
What is the rock cycle?
26th president of the United States, known for the creation of the National Park Service.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Pollutants in the air redirecting heat towards earths surface.
What is the Greenhouse Gas Effect?
Solid or liquid particles suspended in the air, created haze and reduces light.
What is Particulate Matter?
Ensures that all projects involving federal money conduct an environmental assessment and impact statement.
What is the National Environmental Policy Act? (NEPA)
Evaporation, condensation, transportation, precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
Proposed the concept of natural selection in 1858.
The amount of greenhouse gasses generated by our actions.
What is the Carbon Footprint?
Common vehicle exhaust, significant component of urban pollution.
What is Carbon Monoxide?
Act creates in 1976, aims to reduce hazardous waste tracking it cradle-to-grave.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act? (RCRA)
Human emissions, respiration, photosynthesis.
What is the carbon cycle?
Believed that when people had access to public resources and acted in their own interest, it will become depleted.
Garrett Hardin
What is Ocean Acidification?
Known as London smog it is heavily dominated by sulfate compounds.
What is sulfurous smog?
Created standards for carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, ozone, and lead pollution levels.
What is the Clean Air Act?(CAA)
Ammoniafication, denitrification, assimilation.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Was president during the dust bowl, emphasized maintaining forests, and teaching agriculture.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
Human sources of pollution, such as the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial pollution.
What is anthropogenic sources of pollution?
Was an addictive in gasoline until 1996, and can be linked to lower levels of learning and concentration.
What is lead?
Act created hold those accountable for releasing hazardous waste, also created a fund to help with the cleaning.
What is the Super Fund Act?
Volcanoes, fertilizer runoff into ocean sediment, dissolves into soil streams and lakes.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
Scottish-American author who's direct activism helped protect many wilderness areas across the country. Created the Sierra Club.
Who is John Muir?
International goal for global emissions of greenhouse gasses to be down 5.2% from their 1990 levels.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
Evaporates from fuels, solvents, paints, and improper combustion of fuels.
What is volatile organic compounds?