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Renewable Energy
Planet Earth
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Miscellaneous Facts Everyone Should Know
100
Disease that is affecting the shape of the age structure diagram in many African countries
What is AIDS?
100
A type of renewable energy that comes from the heat inside the earth
What is geothermal energy?
100
Layer of the atmosphere that is extremely cold
What is the mesophere?
100
Law that restricts emissions from cars and pollution emitted from smoke stacks
What is the Clean Air Act?
100
The author of Silent Spring
Who is Rachel Carson?
200
Disease that was reduced by the use of DDT to kill mosquitoes
What is malaria? (or yellow fever)
200
a measure of the useful energy produced by an energy conversion device, compared to the energy that gets converted to useless heat
What is energy efficiency?
200
Location of ENSO
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
Law that was passed after the Cuyahoga River caught on fire in 1969
What is the Clean Water Act?
200
Largest category of solid waste in the U.S.
What is paper?
300
A graph that shows the effects of various dosages of a toxic agent on a group of test organisms
What is a dose-response curve?
300
Produces zero pollution after construction is completed
What is wind power?
300
Geographic area that drains into a river
What is watershed?
300
Another name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
What is Superfund?
300
The meaning of NIMBY
What is not in my backyard?
400
Chemicals that can disrupt the production and function of hormones are affecting this system of the body
What is endocrine system?
400
Type of solar cell that converts solar energy into electrical energy
What is a photovoltaic cell?
400
Constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity.
What is the ocean conveyor belt?
400
International agreement that limits the emissions of greenhouse gases?
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
400
Greenhouse gas with highest concentration in the atmosphere
What is water vapor?
500
A process that identifies hazards and risks, ranks them and develops ways to manage them
What is risk analysis?
500
The oldest form of renewable energy
What is biomass energy?
500
Layer of very hot, partly melted rock that flows slowly and causes the tectonic plates to move
What is the asthenosphere?
500
This U.S. law controls hazardous waste with a cradle to grave system
What is Resource Conservation and Recovery Act?
500
Global location of ozone thinning
What is Antarctica?