Potpourri
This is the long-term pattern of atmospheric conditions in a given region over 30 years to thousands of years.
What is climate?
Agricultural runoff is an example of this type of pollution.
What is non-point source pollution?
Coastal Louisiana was built via the sedimentation process of this basin.
What is the Mississippi River Drainage Basin?
He is considered the "Father of Conservation"
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
This major federal law protects endangered species.
What is the ESA (Endangered Species Act) of 1973?
This term describes low-density developments on the edges of cities and towns.
What is urban sprawl?
This is the most effective way to deal with pollution.
What is pollution prevention?
This major cause of wetland loss prevents the natural deposit of freshwater and nutrients from the Mississippi River into central and coastal wetlands.
This group of people believed in little or no management of wilderness areas.
Who are Preservationists?
This federal law was designed to control air pollution emissions.
What is the CAA (Clean Air Act) of 1970?
These are the 2 major chemical components of acid deposition/acid rain.
What is H2SO4 (sulfuric acid) and HNO3 (nitric acid)?
Someone with this type of worldview believes that the natural world is primarily a support system for human life.
What is a human-centered worldview?
These two major causes of wetland loss are expected to significantly worsen with climate change.
What are storms and sea level rise?
This wave of environmental laws occurred in the 1970s.
What are pollution control/management laws?
This was the first major modern environmental act. Requires an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) for projects with significant impacts to the environment.
What is NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) of 1969?
This type of age-structure diagram has a large population of people aged 45+.
What is declining?
This non-scientific principle of sustainability involves including harmful environmental health effects into the costs of producing goods.
What is full-cost pricing?
These are three socio-economic benefits of coastal wetlands.
What are commercial fisheries, storm protection, port and navigation protection, oil and gas infrastructure protection, and cultural benefits?
This phase of American environmental history was marked by FDR's New Deal Conservation plans and the rise of ecology.
What is Phase 2 (1920s - 1960s)?
This federal agency is responsible for making permit decisions on wetland issues (Section 404 of the Clean Water Act).
What is the USACE (US Army Corps of Engineers)?
This is an overload in earth's natural resource recycling process.
What is pollution?
These are three of the five root causes of the world's environmental problems.
What are human population growth, affluence and unsustainable resource use, poverty, lack of natural capital value in prices, and isolation from nature?
These are four solutions to wetland loss.
This American biologist and author's writings connected politics, activism, and economy to nature which led to major federal environmental pollution laws.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Cradle-to-grave regulation.
What is RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) of 1976?