requires minimum safety standards for community water supplies
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
100
Which greenhouse gas that is produced by domestic livestock?
What is CH4? (methane)
100
the number of children a woman will bear during her reproductive life
What is total fertility rate?
100
found in old plumbing pipes and fixtures and some ceramic glazes
What is lead?
200
mandates the restoration and maintenance of the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters
What is the Clean Water Act?
200
a gasoline additive that impairs the nervous system and at low concentrations can have measurable effects on learning and the ability to concentrate
What is Pb? (lead)
200
the population time in years for a country with an annual growth rate of 3.5 percent
What is 20?
200
composed of fibers known to cause lung disease
What is asbestos?
200
losses of useable energy between successive trophic levels in an ecosystem are best accounted for by this
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
300
establishes cradle-to-grave tracking of hazardous waste
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
300
a highly toxic gas that is formed by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel such as coal, oil, natural gas, or charcoal
What is CO? (carbon monoxide)
300
the most populous countries in the world are China, India and this country
What is the United States?
300
emitted from most manufactured building materials and furniture
What is formaldehyde?
300
erosion and desertification are two major effects of this use of grasslands
What is overgrazing?
400
requires mining companies to replant vegetation on land that was deep-mined
What is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (of 1977)?
400
a greenhouse gas containing nitrogen emitted from fertilizers and animal wastes and produced by burning fossil fuels
What is N2O (nitrous oxide)?
400
continued growth of a population after fertility drops to replacement level
What is population momentum?
400
colorless, odorless gas that is a naturally occurring decay product of uranium
What is radon?
400
the location where most municipal solid waste in the US is disposed of
What is sanitary landfills?
500
requires a social impact statement to assess cultural resources as well as an environmental impact statement for any federal activity
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
500
a colorless gas with an irritating odor; the largest anthropogenic source is the combustion of sulfur-containing coal; can be converted into aerosols in the atmosphere and contributes to acid deposition
What is SO2? (sulfur dioxide)
500
the three main sources of gaseous air pollutants in the US
What is industry, transportation, and energy production
500
this movement made extensive use of chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides) to increase agricultural production