Ecosystem Services
This is the benefit provided by ecosystem processes that moderate natural phenomena.
Regulating Services
What set emission standards for cars, and limits for release of air pollutants?
1. Clean Air Act
2. Clean Water Act of 1972
3. Safe Drinking Water Act (1974)
4. Resource Conservation and liability act (1980)
5. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Act (1976)
Clean Air Act
What is found in paint and its a neurotoxin and endocrine disrupter.?
Lead
This is a type of pollution where contamination (or pollution) of water or air does not originate from a single discrete source
Non-point source pollution
What is the largest portion of Municipal Solid Waste(MSW)?
Paper
Non-material benefit that contributes to the development and cultural advancement of people.
Cultural Services
What addressed the problem of remediating abandoned hazardous waste sites, by establishing legal liability, as well as a trust fund for cleanup activities.
1. Clean Air Act
2. Clean Water Act of 1972
3. Safe Drinking Water Act (1974)
4. Resource Conservation and liability act (1980)
5. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Act (1976)
Resource Conservation and liability act (1980)
What is a colorless pollutant that is the result of when heat and sunlight cause chemical reactions between oxides of nitrogen and VOCs?
Ozone
This type of pollution is when a single, identifiable source of pollutants, such as a smokestack or waste disposal discharge pipe, is responsible for the contamination
Point source pollution
Where did a nuclear power plant go out of control during a test that led to an explosion and released radiation in the environment which is radioactive?
Chernobyl
Any type of benefit to people that can be extracted from nature
Provisioning Services
What policy was created to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment. And the transportation of the hazardous waste
1. Clean Air Act
2. Clean Water Act of 1972
3. Safe Drinking Water Act (1974)
4. Resource Conservation and liability act (1980)
5. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Act (1976)
5. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Act (1976)
What are solid particles and liquid droplets that are small enough to remain suspended in the air?
Suspended Particle Matter
This is the process by which an entire body of water, or parts of it, becomes progressively enriched with minerals and nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus
Eutrophication
Where is e-waste most commonly disposed of?
Ghana
Ecosystem services that are necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services.
Supporting Services
What established drinking water standards for tap water safety, and requires rules for groundwater protection from underground injection?
1. Clean Air Act
2. Clean Water Act of 1972
3. Safe Drinking Water Act (1974)
4. Resource Conservation and liability act (1980)
5. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Act (1976)
3. Safe Drinking Water Act (1974)
What are man-made hydrocarbons like isoprene, terpenes, methane that result in blood disorders and damage immune system?
VOCs
These are chemicals that can interfere with the hormonal systems in your body
Endocrine Disruptors
What is a cause of hypoxia in bodies of water?
Algal Bloom
Air quality, climate, and erosion control are what types of services?
Regulating Services
What Established and maintained goals and standards for U.S. water quality and purity. It has been amended to increase controls on toxic pollutants andto more effectively address the hazard of oil spills.
1. Clean Air Act
2. Clean Water Act of 1972
3. Safe Drinking Water Act (1974)
4. Resource Conservation and liability act (1980)
5. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Act (1976)
2. Clean Water Act of 1972
What is a colorless odorless gas that binds to hemoglobin and reduces ability of
RBC to transport oxygen?
CO
This is when the concentration of a toxin, such as pesticides, in the tissues of tolerant organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain
Biomagnification
What is an example of Integrated Waste Management?
1. Composting
2. Reusing
3. Incineration
4. All of the above
4. All of the Above