Human Population
This describes the rate in which a population will increase in size .
What is Population growth?
The migration of people to large cities also defined as growth in urban areas?
What is Urbanization?
These are the common types of environmental hazards
What is Physical, Chemical, and Biological?
A course of action adopted by a government or an organization that is intended to improve the natural environment and public health or reduce human impact on the environment
What is Environmental Policy?
Household garbage is consider what type of waste
What is Solid waste?
This period was responsible for the first dramatic increase in human population.
What is agricultural revolution?
The percentage of people living in in cites as of 2018?
What is 55%?
Ebola Is a type of disease that can spread from one person to the next
Whats is a Communicable disease?
The federal agency is responsible for setting policy and enforcing U.S environmental laws?
Whats is the Environmental Protection Agency?
Material that cannot be broken down by organisms
What is Nondegradable?
This period saw an improvement in sanitation, agriculture and healthcare
What is Industrial revolution?
This type of natural area is important in reducing the urban heat island effect
Green Spaces?
The study of science that deals with human health
What is Public health?
This 1969 Act was important for establishing environmental protection policy that featured an Environmental impact statement
What is NEPA?
90% of U.S. waste comes from (x3) ?
What is Industrial, agricultural and mining waste?
The population of any given country is determined by factors such as
What is Birth Rate, Death Rate, Immigration and Emigration?
Reducing your carbon footprint can be more impactful if you reside in?
What is Urban Areas?
This type of method used by pubic health officials is used to identify the people who have been in contact with someone with a disease
What is Contact tracing?
This type of regulation is important for setting penalties for non-compliance
What is Command-and-control regulation?
This 1979 act was essential in regulating solid and hazardous waste
What is Resource Conservation and Recovery Act?
These two factors are important in addressing pronatalist pressures in Kerala
What is Education and contraceptives?
This is area is considered a Low population density in developments outside a city
What is Suburban sprawl?
The type of toxic substances causes cancer and is commonly associated with tabacoo smoke
What are Carcinogens?
This regulations sets an upper limit for pollution and allow companies to trade carbon credits
What is Cap-and-trade?
This waste disposal method reduces 80-90% of trash by volume but release toxic substances into pollution air
What is an incinerator?