Waste Management/Treatment
The 3 R's of Waste Management
What is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
Known as POPs
What are Persistent Organic Pollutants?
Where do the majority of invasive species come from?
Human interactions, or humans introducing them.
This 1970 act requires the EPA to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to protect public health and the environment.
What is The Clean Air Act?
What process is known as when we take materials, break them down and make them into other materials that we can use.
What is recycling?
Mass pollution where organisms die from the hydrocarbons from the oil, the oil on the surface coats the birds feathers and mammals fur coats hurting them.
What is an Oil Spill?
These disruptions occur with irregular, unpredictable frequency, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, or asteroid impacts.
What are Random events?
Known as "Superfund," this law authorized the EPA to identify and clean up abandoned or closed hazardous waste sites.
What is CERCLA
Known as electronic trash such as thrown away phones, laptops, cameras, etc. This kind of waste is especially harmful to the environment because of the batteries it contains.
What is E-Waste?
The process when heat is released into the water produces negative effects to the organisms in that ecosystem.
What is Thermal Pollution?
Includes water purification, flood protection, water filtration, and habitat.
What are Wetland Services?
This law governs the disposal of solid and hazardous waste, regulating it from "cradle-to-grave".
RCRA
Known as the removal of all of the physical stuff/ things you can see in regards to waste treatment.
What is Primary Treatment?
The process whereby excessive nutrients (nitrogen/phosphorus) lead to algal blooms, reduced sunlight, and eventually, low oxygen conditions known as hypoxia, leading to fish kills.
What is Eutrophication?
Commercial development, dam construction, overfishing, and pollutants from agricultural and industrial waste can be classified as what in regards to wetlands.
What are the negative human impacts on Wetlands?
This international agreement, often associated with atmospheric science, aimed to phase out the production of CFCs to protect the ozone layer.
What is the Montreal Protocol
Known as the use of chemical process to remove 99% of the germs left after general treatment of sewage
What is Tertiary Treatment?
Main sources of thermal pollution are known as one of these
What are coal fired and nuclear power plants, deforestation, industrial manufacturing, and urban runoff?
(Any answer listed works)
What is known as chemicals that interfere with the Endocrine Disruptors of Animals
What are Endocrine Disruptors?
This law regulates the discharge of pollutants into US waters and sets standards for surface water, but not for groundwater or drinking water.
What is the Clean Water Act?