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52 Cards in this Set
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Which federal agency is tasked with promulgating rules for the nation's hazardous waste programs?
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EPA
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What activity is the nation's single largest consumer of water?
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irrigation
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What is eutrophication?
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increased nutrients in water and too much leads the body of water to become a marsh, lack of oxygen and life
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Name 5 strategies that could have an effect in combating global warming
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1. kyoto protocol
2. mandatory emissions reductions 3. establishment of global emission 4. frame work (F CCC) 5. cleaner fuels |
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Superfund Program
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way of cleaning sites
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Biochemcial Oxygen Demand (BOD)
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way of measuring quality of treated water
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The Montereal Protocol is a treaty that represents a significant act of international cooperation to deal with what environmental problem?
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ozone layer depletion
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What is a form of non-ionizing radiation?
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UV rays
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What typeof water contaminants present the greatest health threat ot most resident sof third world countries?
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dz-causing bacterial
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Tipping fee
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what you pay to dump your trash
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Name six criteria air pollutants
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sulfer dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, lead, ozone, particulate matter
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What water pollutants are currently the main focus of concern in industrialized nations?
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nitrates and point-source pollutions
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RCRA Subtitle D
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law that deals with sanitary landfills
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Name to ways in which low level radioactive wastes differ from high-level wastes
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low level - have shorter half lives, less energetic, have waste facilities to send them to
high level - more energetic, longer life, no wast facilites to send them to |
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What atmospheric constituent is regarded as posing the most serious threat to the integrity of the ozone layer?
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CFC
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Form of ionizing radiation that is lease penetrating capable of being blocked by skin
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alpha
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What is the largest underground water reserve in the world, currently being depleted by over pumping?
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ogalala aquifer
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MRFs
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material recycling facilites
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Why is radon gas considered a problem?
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radio active gas
it causes lung cancer |
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What is the purpose of nuclear fuel reprocessing?
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decrease nuclear waste
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RCRA Waste
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haz'd materials that dont' belong in the landfills
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What is the name given to the geologic strata containing groundwater?
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aquifer
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The time required for half of the original amount of a radioactive isotope to undergo readioactive decay is referred to as
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half-life
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Name steps of the hydroligic cycle
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sun, evaporation, evapotranspiration, transportation, precipitation, runoff
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What is the single largest portion of municipal solid waste stream by volume?
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paper, cardboard
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In what ways does sanitary landfilling differ from open dumping?
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controlling lechate, location restrictions, plastic lining, groundwater monitering, financial resources
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Name 3 countries currently reprocessing spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors
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France, UK, Japan
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Are you in favor of nuclear power
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no
pros: doesn't depend on fossil fuels, carbon emissions are minimal cons: the fuel can't be dumped bc its radioactive and deadly, contamination in trasporting nuclear fuel, problems of nuclear waste |
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Major cause for: Ozone layer depletion & Global warming
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CFC & greenhouse gas
reduce CFC & use energy efficient tech'l, all undustries should cut emission |
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Which environmental constituent is increasing?
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CO2
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Point source vs. non-point source of water pollution
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point source:
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What activity is the nation's single largest consumer of water?
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irrigation
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Dz most frequently associated with low level exposure to ionizing radiation
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cancer
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What problem was the Superfund (CERCLA) intended to solve?
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intended to clean up contaminated properties that were not useful anymore
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Environmental racism
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everything that's undesirable ends up in a bad place
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Point source vs. non-point source of water pollution
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point source:
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What activity is the nation's single largest consumer of water?
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irrigation
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Dz most frequently associated with low level exposure to ionizing radiation
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cancer
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What problem was the Superfund (CERCLA) intended to solve?
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intended to clean up contaminated properties that were not useful anymore
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Environmental racism
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everything that's undesirable ends up in a bad place
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What region of the US is chronically water-short?
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SW
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What main factor limiting greater reliance on desalination as a means of augmenting water supplies?
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power intensive
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Pay as you throw
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changing more to people who generate more trash
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Location for the nations first permanent high-level radioactive waste repositor
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Nevada
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From a global perspective, where are conflicts over dwindling water supplies likely to be mos acute in the years ahead?
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Middle East
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What are biosolids?
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by-products of sewage and waste water treatment
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Tipping fee
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what you pay to dump your trash
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Treaties for solving issues of: Ozone & global warming
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the montreal protocol and kyoto protocol
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leachate
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waste from the landfill leaks out
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Superfund Program
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way of cleaning sites
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NIMBY problem
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Not in my backyard
no landfills near homes |
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vermicomposting
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worms compost your trash
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