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Envi. Science P.2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Warming of the earth's surface and lower atmosphere is called what? | Global warming |
| A process by which radiative energy leaves a plantary surface by gases, what are these gases called? | Greenhouse gases |
| What topics regarding the greenhouse effect do scientists argue about? | Heating of the earth, is CO2 a gas, is there flares in the ozone layer |
| Who started the phrase greenhouse effect? | Fourier or Pouillet |
| What effect does industrialization have on birth and death rate? | Decrease in death and in birth rates |
| Screening and grit removal? | Pretreatment |
| Settling the sewage where the solids settle to the bottom and the oil floats to the surface? | Primary Treatment |
| Removes dissolved biological matter with micro-organisms in a managed habitat? | Secondary Treatment |
| Treated water that is sometimes disinfected chemically or physically. | Tertiary Treatment |
| After the secondary treatment phase this is dealt with and becomes activated. | Sludge |
| What ocean water pollutant is most damaging? | Oil |
| On April 26, 1986 at a nuclear power plant in ukraine had a horrible accident that made history and is the only meltdown that went for 100 miles. | Cherynobyl Nuclear Plant Meltdown |
| What forms gradually where overburden is thin and where dissolving limestone is replaced by sand granules that fall into the depression and fill the holes? | Sinkholes |
| What begins in areas where no soil is initially present? | Primary succession |
| What begins in areas where soil is already present? | Secondary succession |
| This is defined as a water pollution affecting a water body from multiple different sources. | Nonpoint source pollution |
| What is the current percentage if world population growth? | 1.14% |
| What is the current percentage of Death rate? | 8.37% |
| What is the current percentage of Birth rate? | 19-20% |
| Which global region's population is increasing more than others? | Western Asia |
| What is poor? | Poverty |
| This is a method of farming used when a slope is too steep or too long, or when other types of farming may not prevent soil erosion. | Strip farming |
| This is a method of farming that practices plowing across a slope following its elevation contour lines. | Contour farming |
| A form of precipitation that is usually acidic with elevated hydrogen ions with a low ph. | Acid Rain |
| What comprimises the greatest distributor to landfills? | Paper |
| What is a particulate collection device that removes particles from a flowing gas? | Electrostatic Precipitator |
| What removes pollutants from a furnace flue gas or from other gas streams? | Wet Scrubber |
| This is a process whereby certain substances move up the food chain and are eaten by aquatic organisms such as fish, then those are eaten by large birds. | Biomagnification |
| Biomagnification is found in what tissue? | Fatty Tissues |
| This refers to the accumulation of substances, in the environment before they are taken in by the first organism in a food chain. | Bioaccumulation |
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