Environmental Health
This chemical hazard can cause lung cancer and chronic respiratory ailments.
What is carcinogens?
The storage of carbon, the purification of water, the housing of biodiversity, and the timber provided are all benefits to which type of land.
What is a forest?
The gradual removal of soil by water, wind, ice, or gravity.
What is soil erosion?
This is the energy source that determines weather and climate.
What is the sun?
This fossil fuel is the most abundant in the world and provides about one fourth of the world’s energy.
What is coal?
These are the different kinds of environmental hazards…
What is biological, social, chemical, and physical?
This is when seawater is heated until it evaporates, leaving salt behind.
What is desalination?
(Blank) are the two main types of weathering involved in soil formation.
What is physical weathering and chemical weathering?
This is the greenhouse gas that has the greatest effect on climate change.
What is carbon dioxide?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
This natural disaster, caused by the colliding of convergent and the spreading of divergent plate boundaries, has the ability to cause tsunamis, landslides, or mudslides.
What is volcanoes?
(Blank) has the goal of harvesting the maximum amount of resources without compromising future harvests.
What is maximum sustainable yield?
Topsoil is important for plants because (blank).
What is it contains nutrients, organic matter, and water that plants need to grow?
(Blank) are indirect sources of evidence such as ice cores that serve to measure climate change.
This process splits an atomic nucleus into two smaller nuclei to release energy.
What is nuclear fission?
(Blank) is how you calculate a risk assessment.
What is identify the substance, determine the toxicity and sensitivity, and evaluate how often humans are exposed to it?
This made it illegal to release pollution from a point source without permitting.
What is the clean water act of 1977?
These are two sustainable farming practices that help reduce erosion.
What is crop rotation and contour farming?
(Blank) is a system, used to limit climate change, in which companies have certain allowances for greenhouse gas emissions which they can buy and sell with other companies.
What is the cap and trade system?
This type of energy is stored energy based on an object‘s position or shape.
What is potential energy?
The difference between the WHO and the CDC is (blank).
What is the WHO is an international organization that coordinates responses globally while the CDC is a national organization that works to organize disease control and prevention?
This act requires that renewable resource management plans be created for each national forest as well as contributed to the declination of logging within the United States.
What is the national forest management act?
Human activities that can increase soil degradation and desertification are (blank).
What is overgrazing, clear-cutting trees, leaving soil bare, and poor farming practices?
This was established to bring in officials and scientists from around the world to study climate change.
What is the intergovernmental panel on climate control?
This 1986 nuclear accident was caused by human error and unsafe reactor design, releasing radioactive dust and causing thousands of cancer cases.
What is the Chernobyl accident?