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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
What is 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

Unlike HFCs, CFCs contain this element, which breaks apart ozone molecules in the stratosphere and damages the ozone layer.

What is chlorine?

200

A source of pollution that comes from one specific, identifiable location, such as a pipe from a factory.

What is Point source pollution

200
Of the following it does not increase carbon dioxide: respiration, photosynthesis, combustion, decomposition
What is photosynthesis
200

A biome that exhibits periodic fluctuations in temperature and sunlight

What is the intertidal zone

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

When coal is burned, this toxic heavy metal can enter the atmosphere, fall into waterways, and build up in fish through biomagnification

What is mercury 

300
The purpose of stratospheric ozone
What is screen out uv radiation
300

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

What is a Tropical Rain Forrest

300
The world's most abundant fossil fuel
What is coal
300
The deepest part of the ocean
What is the abyss
400

Examples of inorganic nutrients that cause eutrophication

What is nitrogen and phosphorus

400

n the 1970s, the United States began phasing this toxic metal out of gasoline because it polluted the air and could damage the brain and nervous system.

What is lead

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

This type of pollution increases turbidity, which can block sunlight and damage fish gills

What is sediment pollution

500
When ozone is found here it contributes to the formation of smog
What is troposphere
500
The process which converts nitrogen gas into ammonia
What is nitrogen fixation
500
The primary source of energy for the sun
What is nuclear fusion
500
During this climatic event upwellings of cold, nutrient rich water are suppressed.
What is El Nino