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Energy
Ecology
Pollution
Policy
The Earth
100
Coal, Oil and Natural Gas
What are fossil fuels
100
this cycle relies on bacteria for several processes
What is the nitrogen cycle
100
The process of nitrates and other nutrients fueling an explosion of algal growth
What is eutrophication
100
This was the first major Environmental legislation
What is Clean Air act
100

Type of plate boundary that moves apart, found on the ocean floor

What is a divergent boundary? 

200

Extraction method for Natural Gas

What is Hydraulic Fracturing or Fracking?

200

How much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next? 

What is 10%? 

200

Which air pollutants lead to acid deposition

What is NOx & SO2

200

This legislation created Superfund sites dedicated to industrial cleanup

What is CERCLA

200
The layer of atmosphere where the ozone layer is found
What is the stratosphere
300

4 Renewable Energy Sources 

What are hydropower, wind, solar, biofuel, geothermal

300
Term for a natural replacement of wildlife after a natural disaster like a fire or hurricane
What is secondary succession? 
300

Inverse of Dissolved Oxygen in the Sag Curve

What is Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD)? 

300
This legislation funded municipal sewage treatment plants
What is the Clean Water Act
300

Property by which soil is classified as silt, clay, and sand

What is Texture? 
400

Process that nuclear energy uses in the reactor? 

What is nuclear fission? 

400

r-selected species tend to follow which population growth curve? 

What is exponential growth ?

400
The three types of acids created in the atmosphere when mixed with water
What are sulfuric acid, nitric acid and carbonic acid
400
This agreement reduced the amount of chlorofluorocarbons released into the atmosphere
What is the Montreal protocol
400

Term for the reflectivity of the Earth's Surface

What is Albedo? 

500

Measures the demand and supply of natural resources, aids in measuring sustainability 

What is Ecological Footprint? 

500

This cycle's source is from weathering of rocks

What is the phosphorous cycle

500

The 5 greenhouse gases

What are methane, CO2, O3, nitrous oxides, CFCs, and water vapor 

500
The goal of this legislation is to protect both habitats and species
What is the Endangered Species Act
500

Concept of using shared resources for self-interest vs. keeping as the common good

What is the Tragedy of the Commons?