Air Pollution
What is a primary pollutant?
An air pollutant emitted directly from a source.Ex: industrial facilities, coal-fired power plant
What is a reserve?
Total amount of fossil fuel that is likely to be available if exploration and development of technologies continue.
What is hydropower?
Electrical energy produced by falling or flowing water.
What does abiotic mean?
Nonliving
What is a GMO?
Organism whose genetic makeup has been altered by genetic engineering (genetically modified organism).
How do smogs form?
when chemical pollutants in the air are baked by the sun and react chemically.
What is smelting?
A metal is obtained, either as the element or as a simple compound, from its ore by heating beyond the melting point.
Is geothermal or wind power more efficient?
Wind Power
What is the difference between a specialist and generalist?
Generalist can use a large range of resources, while specialist have a limited range of resources they use to survive.
What is permeability?
The ability of nutrients and water to move down the soil horizons (ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it).
What does the EPA(Environmental Protection Agency) do?
responsible for managing federal efforts to control air and water pollution, radiation and pesticide hazards, environmental research, hazardous waste, and solid-solid waste disposal.
How Many Plate tectonic boundaries are there?
3
What is cogeneration?
Production of two useful forms of energy, such as high-temperature heat or steam and electricity, from the same fuel source.
What is doubling time a measure of?
A. Population growth rate
B. Environmental impact of each individual in a population
C. Length of time an individual born in a population is expected to live
A
What method of agricultural irrigation results in the loss of the least amount of water by evaporation?
Drip Irrigation
What type of electricity-generating power plant releases radioactive materials as well as toxic metals such as lead under normal operating conditions?
Coal-burning
What is the portion of an ore that is not used called?
Which source that is converted directly into electrical energy by photovoltaic cells?
Sunlight
What is the difference between food web and food chain?
A food chain is a series in which organisms eats or decomposes another one. A food web is a complex network of interconnected food chains and feeding relationships
Which food are people in industrialized countries most likely to eat?
A. Beans
B. Rice
C. Wheat
D. Beef
D
What are three main anthropogenic sources of gaseous air pollutants in the United States?
Industry, transportation, and energy production
What is the most volcanism in the world associated with?
Faulting
What principal is solar heating based on?
Principal of the greenehouse effect
Explain process of respiration
The process by which cells convert glucose and oxygen into energy, carbon dioxide, and water.
What are two major effects of overgrazing?
erosion and desertification