Acts
Cycles
Influential People
Climate Change
Atmospheric Pollution
100

Created in 1973 protects and recovers at risk species. 

What is the Endangered Species Act?

100

Magma cools into igneous, erodes into sediments, compacts into sedimentary. 

What is the rock cycle?

100

26th president of the United States, known for the creation of the National Park Service. 

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

100

Pollutants in the air redirecting heat towards earths surface. 

What is the Greenhouse Gas Effect? 

100

Solid or liquid particles suspended in the air, created haze and reduces light. 

What is Particulate Matter? 

200

Ensures that all projects involving federal money conduct an environmental assessment and impact statement.

What is the National Environmental Policy Act? (NEPA)

200

Evaporation, condensation, transportation, precipitation.

What is the water cycle?

200

Proposed the concept of natural selection in 1858.

Who is Charles Darwin?
200

The amount of greenhouse gasses generated by our actions. 

What is the Carbon Footprint? 

200

Common vehicle exhaust, significant component of urban pollution. 

What is Carbon Monoxide?

300

Act creates in 1976, aims to reduce hazardous waste tracking it cradle-to-grave. 

What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act? (RCRA) 

300

Human emissions, respiration, photosynthesis. 

What is the carbon cycle?

300

Believed that when people had access to public resources and acted in their own interest, it will become depleted. 

Garrett Hardin 

300
The process of carbon converting into carbonic acid lowering the pH of the ocean. 

What is Ocean Acidification?

300

Known as London smog it is heavily dominated by sulfate compounds. 

What is sulfurous smog? 

400

Created standards for carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, ozone, and lead pollution levels. 

What is the Clean Air Act?(CAA)

400

Ammoniafication, denitrification, assimilation.

What is the nitrogen cycle?

400

Was president during the dust bowl, emphasized maintaining forests, and teaching agriculture. 

Who is Franklin Roosevelt?

400

Human sources of pollution, such as the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial pollution. 

What is anthropogenic sources of pollution? 

400

Was an addictive in gasoline until 1996, and can be linked to lower levels of learning and concentration. 

What is lead? 

500

Act created hold those accountable for releasing hazardous waste, also created a fund to help with the cleaning. 

What is the Super Fund Act?

500

Volcanoes, fertilizer runoff into ocean sediment, dissolves into soil streams and lakes. 

What is the phosphorus cycle?

500

Scottish-American author who's direct activism helped protect many wilderness areas across the country. Created the Sierra Club. 

Who is John Muir?

500

International goal for global emissions of greenhouse gasses to be down 5.2% from their 1990 levels. 

What is the Kyoto Protocol? 

500

Evaporates from fuels, solvents, paints, and improper combustion of fuels. 

What is volatile organic compounds?