Question | Answer |
Ecology | The study of the relationships between living things and their environments |
Pesticides | The chemicals used to kill insects on plants |
Earth Day | Nationwide demonstration to send a message to politicians telling them to wake up and do something, first earth day was April 22, 1970 |
Multilateral environmental agreements | Pacts among nations to protect the environment |
Pollution | The release of wastes such as chemicals or harmful gases into their, water, and soil |
Love Canal | Near Niagara Falls, diseases and birth defects, lived on top of a decades-old toxic waste dump |
Three Mile Island | Nuclear facility, overheated when cooling system failed, closed down the reactor until they could seal the leak |
Bhopal | Chemical plant, released deadly toxic fumes in to the air, killed 3,800 people and injured 100,000 |
Chernobyl | Nuclear explosion, radioactive waste that killed hundreds and caused persistent health problems |
Prince William Sound | In Alaska where shortly after midnight the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck the Bligh Reef in Prince William sound and spilled more than 11 million gallons of oil |
Kyoto Accords | One of the most talked-about MEA's in recent years, grew out of a conference held in Kyoto, Japan |