US Policy
Regulates and reduces air pollution in the USA.
What is the Clean Air Act (CAA)?
Authorizes US Fish and Wildlife service to determine which species need to be protected to ensure survival.
What is the Endangered Species Act (ESA)?
When plants absorb material through their roots.
What is assimilation?
When birth and death rates are low and population growth is stable.
What is the post industrial stage?
The amount a population would grow if there were unlimited resources and no limiting factors.
What is biotic potential?
Sets wastewater standards and regulates discharges going directly into bodies of water in the USA.
What is the Clean Water Act (CWA)?
Policies that nations agreed to in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
What is the Kyoto Protocol or Paris Agreement?
When bacteria convert ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates back to nitrogen gas.
What is denitrification?
This drops first as countries begin to industrialize.
The largest a population can grow without overusing or running out of resources.
What is carrying capacity?
Established the requirements concerning closed and abandoned hazardous waste sites and cleanup.
What is the Superfund or CERCLA?
To phase out the production of CFCs that were responsible for ozone depletion.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
When nitrogen gas is converted into ammonia or nitrates.
What is nitrogen fixation?
When birth and death rates are both high but the population may not be growing rapidly.
What is the preindustrial stage?
When a population grows past the carrying capacity and the population starts to decrease.
What is dieback?
Prohibits the use, in food, drug, etc, of things that can cause cancer.
What is the Delaney Clause?
Regulates the production, use, and disposal of hazardous waste.
What is the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)?
When bacteria convert dead organisms and waste into ammonia.
What is ammonification?
When birth rates start to drop as a result of increase cost of living, increased female status, and overall improved quality of life.
What is the industrial stage?
When a population is dispersed in no rhyme or reason.
What is random distribution?
What sets standards for water quality including assessing groundwater, but bottled water may not be included.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
Controls and regulate international trade of threatened plants and animals.
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)?
When bacteria convert ammonia into nitrites and nitrates to be used by plants.
When death rates start to drop due to increased health care and sanitation. Population grows rapidly.
What is the transitional stage?
When a population continues to increase in size as time goes on even if the birth rates are dropping.
What is population momentum?