Atmospheric Pollutants
What are Fungus and Algae? (Cyanobacteria)
Four examples of Non-renewable energy sources.
What are Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, and Uranium/Nuclear?
The three major nuclear accidents that commonly come to mind.
What were the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima?
An event that reinforces the direction the climate is going.
What is a Positive Feedback Loop?
One of the most polluted cities in the world, releasing Lead, Zinc, and Uranium into the atmosphere.
What is Karabash, Russia?
The range of diameter for particulate matter, in microns.
What is 0.01 - 100 microns?
The most used form of renewable energy in the United States.
What are Biomass Fuels?
You are most likely to develop cancer due to PCB's if exposed in this way.
What is eating contaminated fish?
The year IPCC was established.
When is 1988?
The power sources of the Northeast, West Coast, and Deep South.
What are Coal, Solar/Nuclear, and Natural Gas?
The technical term for Secondary Pollutants created by chemical reactions triggered by Solar Energy.
What is Photochemical Smog?
What is 37%?
The acceptable risk level for the EPA.
What is One in a Million?
What is 400-420 ppm?
Two US mountain ranges named for natural photochemical smog.
What are the Blue Ridge & Smoky Mountains?
What is Hemoglobin?
The amount of sunlight, in Watts per square meter, reaching Earth each day.
What is 1370?
The four steps of the EPA's Risk Assessment Process.
What are Hazard Identification, Dose-Response Assessment, Exposure Assessment, and Risk Characterization?
The factor of which Methane is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2?
What is 25?
What is the average level of CO2 for the last 800,000 years?
What is 190 ppm?
The year of the creation of the United States Clean Air Act.
When is 1970?
The name of the dam in Solar Storms. (it wasn't in the presentation.)
What is the Hydro Quebec Dam?
Six of the EPA's top concerns for health and the environment.
What are 6 of the following? Radon, Indoor Air Pollution, Water Contamination, Global Climate Change, Occupational Exposure, Biodiversity Loss, Ozone Layer, Smog, Habitat Alteration, Toxic Pollutants.
Definition of an Albedo Effect.
What is something that reflects sunlight, thus decreasing Earths temperature?
The four countries leading in renewable energy sources, and the sources they use.
What are China; Solar, Brazil; Biofuel, Iceland; Geothermal, and the Netherlands; Hydropower?