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Air pollution
Pests
Food & Agriculture
Hazmats
Waste
100
asthma and COPD
What are two health problems caused by air pollution?
100
an organism that is noxious, destructive, or troublesome
What is a pest?
100
the root cause of hunger throughout the world
What is poverty?
100
the study of the harmful effects of chemicals on humans
What is toxicology?
100
trash, refuse, and garbage thrown away from homes and small businesses
What is Municipal Solid Waste or MSW?
200
Two main layers of our atmosphere
What is the troposphere and the stratosphere?
200
A cheap and effective pesticide discovered by Paul Muller that was banned because it lead to the decline of bird populations
What is DDT?
200
a nonprofit organization that provides livestock, bees, fish, and fowl to families if they pass on the offspring to others in the community
What is Heifer International?
200
lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, tin, chromium, zinc, and copper,
What are examples of heavy metals?
200
types of garbage typically found in MSW?
What are yard waste, food waste, plastics, wood, paper, glass, metals?
300
Air pollution found in areas with high populations and heavy vehicle exhaust
What is photochemical smog?
300
arsenic, lead, and mercury
What are first-generation pesticides used to kill pests?
300
lack of basic food for energy or nutrients
What is hunger?
300
The pollution disaster in this community prompted Congress to pass The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA; 1980), also known as Superfund.
What is Love Canal, New York?
300
In new landfills, clay liners are often used to collect this poisonous brew
What is leachate?
400
nitrous oxides, volatile organic chemicals, particulates, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide
What are the 5 primary air pollutants?
400
_____ health effects occur over years of exposure.
What is chronic?
400
______started farming and animal husbandry 12,000 years ago.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
400
4 properties of a hazardous chemical (or hazmat) that are specified in its MSDS
What are Ignitability, Corrosiviity, Reactivity, and Toxicity?
400
acronyms that say people don't want anything to do with landfills near their homes
What are LULU, NIMBY, BANANA, and NIMTOO?
500
amount of pollutant, amount of space polluted, wind and other phenomenon that can disperse pollutants
What three factors that contribute to air pollution?
500
four types of ecological pest control
What are natural enemies, natural chemicals, cultural controls, and genetic controls?
500
________ contains genes from corn and beans to increase nutrition by adding iron and vitamin A.
What is Golden Rice?
500
PERC, phlalates, bisphenyl A, perchlorate, pesticides, solvents, plastics
What are examples of toxic synthetic organic chemicals?
500
this new and rapidly growing hazardous waste is often shipped to other countries for disposal
What is e-waste?