Greenhouse Effect
Acids/Bases
Water
Anything Goes
HodgePodge
100
Name two greenhouse gases.
What is carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour,nitrogen oxides.
100
The color of the litmus paper in a base.
What is blue
100
Dissolved oxygen in water should be high or low to support life?
What is high.
100
Plants need nutrients at this level (or amount)
What is optimum level.
100
A technique that can be used to reduce the concentration of harmful chemicals in the soil or groundwater
What is Phytoremediation?
200
Natural causes of greenhouse gases to be released into the atmosphere.
What is volcanoes, forest fires.
200
A technology used by industry to remove SO2 gases from their emissions.
What is a scrubber.
200
Two items that water conservationists would test for to determine water quality.
What is acidity, dissolved oxygen, heavy metals, pesticides, salts, plant nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus)
200

The process in which chemicals get into water and disperse through the environment. 

What is leaching?

200

The dose of chemical required to kill 50% of a population.

What is LD50

300
Term for the human activites which have increased the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere leading to global warming.
What is enhanced greenhouse effect.
300
The term when an acid is added to a base to create water and a salt.
What is neutralization.
300

You conduct an investigation of the river water quality by taking a water sample and testing for fluoride, a potentially toxic chemical in large doses. An 2 L sample of river water contains 60 mg of fluoride. Calculate the concentration of fluoride in ppm. 

What is 30 ppm

300
Name two of the four types of organic molecules.
What is carbohydrates, lipids, proteins (amino acids), nucleic acids (DNA, RNA).
300
Movement of water from area of high concentration of water to an area of low concentration of water.
What is osmosis?
400
Two side effects of global warming due to greenhouse effect.
What is coastal flooding, melting of ice caps, more violent storms, more droughts,....
400
When a solution is a pH of 2, it is called
What is acidic.
400
Term to describe the accumulation of toxic pollutants through the food chain in water.
What is biomagnification
400
break down of material By the sun
What is Photolysis?
400
Nutrients required by plants in large quantities.
What is macronutrients?
500
Greenhouse effect leads to global warming. Name two other environmental concerns.
What is acid precipitation and ozone layer depletion.
500
pH 5 is how many times more acidic than pH 9?
What is 10 000x.
500
Term for Adding lots of water to a pollutant to decrease its concentration.
What is dilution.
500
The breakdown of organic molecules by bacteria, fungi.
What is biodegradation?
500

Which of the following do NOT play a role in fixing nitrogen?

  1. animal wastes
  2. lightening
  3. bacteria
  4. water

What is water?

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