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Water pollution
Air Pollution
Ecosystems
Energy
Toss up
100
The mechanical process of sewer treatment
What is primary sewage treatment
100

Law that regulates air pollution, such as PM or tropo ozone levels

What is the Clean Air Act

100

Classification of organisms that eats both plants and animals

What is omnivore

100
The "dirtiest" fuel to burn
What is coal
100

The shape of an age structure diagram from a country with a growth rate of zero

Straight sides

200
The result of cultural eutrophication that causes death in fish.
What is lack of dissolved oxygen
200
Of the following it does not increase carbon dioxide: respiration, photosynthesis, combustion, decomposition
What is photosynthesis
200

A group of individuals of the same species occupying a given area at the same time

What is population

200
The number of new nuclear power plants built in the US since 1979
What is zero
200
The term for an organism's "way of life"
What is a niche
300
The acceptable level of coliform bacteria for drinking water.
What is zero
300

The benefit of stratospheric ozone

What is screen out uv radiation

300

Example of an ecosystem with one of the highest net primary productivities

Tropical rainforest

300
The world's most abundant fossil fuel
What is coal
300

The organisms responsible for denitrification

What is bacteria (or legumes)

400
Examples of inorganic nutrients that cause eutrophication
What is nitrogen and phosphorus
400

Not an example of a VOC: methane, CFC, CO, benzene, propane

What is CO

400
The most important factors in determining climate
What is temperature and precipitation
400

The percentage of energy which does NOT move on to the next trophic level

What is 90

400
A lid of warm air on top of cooler stagnant air.
What is thermal inversion
500

The tertiary sewage treatment process involves the use of this to sanitize wastewater for release

What is UV (or chlorine)

500
When ozone is found here it contributes to the formation of smog
What is troposphere
500

The process which converts atmospheric nitrogen gas into ammonia

What is nitrogen fixation

500

The process used to generate energy from uranium in nuclear power plants

What is nuclear fission

500
During this climatic event upwellings of cold, nutrient rich water are suppressed.
What is El Nino