Sus. Design/Waste mgmt
Municipal solid waste (MSW)
is defined as nonliquid waste that comes from homes, institutions, and small businesses and is also called trash or garbage.
Graph of a country's population broken down by age.
Age structure diagram/pyramid
Law regulating water that comes out of household faucets in cities
Clean Drinking Water Act
layer of atmosphere where ozone is beneficial
stratosphere
True or False: The Carbon Cycle involves all of Earth's spheres: geo, bio, hydro, and atmospheres.
True
How do modern sanitary landfills prevent waste contaminating the environment and threatening public health?
In modern sanitary landfills, waste is buried below ground, the pits are lined with impervious clay, and the waste is covered with soil
accumulation of a toxin in a food chain where higher trophic levels have higher toxin levels
biomagnification
An indirect contamination of water
non-point source
top 5 greenhouse gasses include all except:
Carbon monoxide
carbon dioxide
methane
water vapor
surface level ozone
NOx
carbon monoxide
Which country produces the most carbon dioxide in total each year?
China
RCRA
Legislation passed by Congress that specifies how to manage sanitary landfills and hazardous waste (including mining waste)
They interfere with the body's endocrine (hormone) system, which regulates metabolism, growth, and reproduction.
Endocrine disruptors
diversion of water from the Colorado River to supply a growing population in largely arid, desert climates in the southwestern US
California/Arizona Water Project
These form when primary pollutants react with other primary pollutants or with naturally occurring substances. Ground level Ozone is an example.
secondary pollutants
What were carbon dioxide levels like during the last Ice Age?
Urbanization
_____ is the increasing concentration of human populations in densely populated cities that resulted in people moving away from the countryside into towns and cities.
Why does the U.S. population continue to grow even though the United States has decreased its birth rate?
Imigration
barges as large as the state of Texas float in the Pacific Ocean
Plastic waste
The condition when buildings have very poor air quality.
sick building syndrome
Name three ways that climate change is affecting the oceans?
arctic sea ice is melting coral reefs are dying ocean water is becoming more acidic
Residential, commercial, and public land should be intermixed, so that people can use mass transit, walk, or bike, instead of having to drive their cars.
Ideas for smart city growth to be more sustainable.
Carrying Capacity
Size of population the earth's current resource levels can support. Modern agriculture and technology have increased.
agricultural runoff can create which environmental issues?
algae blooms, eutrophic waterways, low/no DO zones, fish kills, coral reef bleaching...
This act requires industries to use scrubbers, among other things.
Clean Air Act
By about how much has the Earth's global surface temperature increased over the past 100 years?
0.6 degrees Celsius (1.4 F)