Energy
Power harvested from sunlight often through photovoltaic panels and converted into electricity.
What is solar power.
Chemical equation for water.
What is H2O.
Primary gas released into the atmosphere from industrial and automotive emissions responsible for global warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2).
Name a way you can prevent pollution.
What is use natural cleaning solutions reduce, reuse, recycle plant a tree.
11 million gallons of oil spilled into Prince William Sound.
What is Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Non-renewable resources derived from dead organic material (i.e. plants and dinosaurs) that has been compressed over thousands of years and extracted for energy consumption.
What are fossil fuels. (Oil, coal, natural gas)
Name two ways you can help conserve water.
What is take shorter showers, turn water off while brushing teeth, limit amount of water used for watering lawns and gardens.
This chronic lung disease affects more than 25 million Americans is the result of air pollution such as particulate matter, pollen, and ground level ozone.
What is asthma.
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms, gardens, and golf courses they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
What are fertilizers or pesticides.
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in late August 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina.
This energy source became even more controversial after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. Power is produced by splitting uranium atoms through a process called fission that produces heat which creates steam used to power a turbine.
What is nuclear power.
The continuous circulation of water as it evaporates from the land and sea, enters the atmosphere, condenses and precipitates to the earth's surface, then moves underground by infiltration.
What is the water cycle.
The atmospheric layer where UV radiation from the sun is absorbed.
What is the ozone layer (located in the Stratosphere).
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted from industries and cars combine with precipitation in the atmosphere to form this.
What is acid rain.
The first Superfund site.
What is Love Canal.
This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona
What is the Hoover Dam.
An area of land where any groundwater underneath of it or precipitation that falls on it drains into one river, basin, or sea.
What is a watershed/
Name two natural processes that emit pollution into the air.
What are volcanoes and forest fires.
An increase in the concentration of chemical nutrients (i.e. phosphates and nitrates) in a body of water that promotes excessive algae growth which then depletes the amount of oxygen available to other organisms.
What is eutrophication.
100,000 people impacted, thousands died because of poor air quality during this time.
What is The Great London Smog.
The 4th largest country in the world that consumes the most energy per capita.
What is China.
Federal law passed in 1972 that placed limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals that can be discharged into a body of water. Provisions to this act include the Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the establishment of a superfund, or CERCLA.
What is the Clean Water Act.
Organic compound responsible for ozone depletion commonly used in refrigerants, aerosols, and solvents that has been restricted under the Montreal Protocol.
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
Term used to describe cities that have consistently higher temperatures than surrounding areas because of a greater retention of heat from buildings, concrete, and asphalt.
What is the heat island effect.
The most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles inundated in depths of up to 30 feet over the course of several months in early 1927.
What is The Great Mississippi Flood.