Intro Question
The 4 people who are on the AAEES board.
Who are Tony, Aaliyah, Ollie and Pavla?
This element is a major contributor to the creation of acid rain.
What is sulfur?
This chemical compound is recognized as causing the “hole” in the ozone layer.
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
This President created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? The agency officially opened on December 2, 1970.
Who is Richard Nixon?
AAEES is a club aiming to promote academic excellence, professional development, and community engagement within the field of environmental engineering and science.
What is the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists?
This word is defined as a body of rock or sediment that holds groundwater.
What is an Aquifer?
This layer absorbs almost all the ultraviolet radiation that reaches the earth.
What is the Stratospheric Ozone layer?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Per unit area, this type of ecosystem is capable of storing the most carbon.
What are the Wetlands? (also acceptable answers include marshes, bogs, swamps)
This air pollution mitigation method, often used in industrial settings, involves passing exhaust gases through a mist of water droplets that physically remove particulate matter via impaction and diffusion.
What is a wet scrubber?
The infamous "hole" in the ozone layer, nearly nine million square miles in size, lies mostly over this continent.
What is Antartica?
The trash heap known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" exists inside this large system of circulating ocean currents located in the North Pacific Ocean, AKA the NPG.
What is North Pacific Gyre?
The 5 steps in the water treatment process in order.
What are coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection?
Air pollution is measured in ppm, ppb, or ug/m3. Therefore, 1 mg/m3 = ? ug/m3.
What is the number 1000?
This biome is also known as the boreal forest or snow forest and is identifiable through its coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. In North America it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska.
What is Taiga?