Summer Assignment Review
The pH scale is a range from:
0-14
A pH of 3 is how many times more acidic than a pH of 5?
100
15 m = ___ mm
15,000
Convert 5 cm to mm
50 mm
An atom of carbon has 6 protons and 7 neutrons in its nucleus. If the atom is neutral, how many electrons does it have?
6
Convert from meters to cm: 9 meters
900 cm
What are considered "the commons"
A renewable resource owned by no one and available for use by anyone at little or no charge
A(n) ______ is a substance with a pH less than 7
Acid
A substance with a pH of 8 is a
Base
A(n) _______ is a substance with a pH greater than 7.
Base
This agency manages about 253 million acres of America's public lands as well as 700 million acres of subsurface mineral estate
Bureau of Land Management
Known also as Superfund. It was passed in 1980 in response to some alarming and decidely unacceptable hazardous waste practices and management going on in the 1970s
CERCLA
The international agreement between governments to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species
CITES
What is the term for water's ability to defy gravity and climb up a tube?
Capillary Action
What are the main greenhouse gasses?
Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
Establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters
Clean Water Act
Mandates the restoration and maintenance of the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters
Clean Water Act
Whose basic structure was established in 1970, and then amended in 1977 and 1990—is a United States federal law designed to protect human health and the environment from the effects of air pollution.
Clean air act
It permits the exchange of energy but not of matter with its surrounding.
Closed system
What type of bond is formed when atoms share electrons?
Covalent
________ is the variable that is measured in response to the ________.
Dependent variable, independent variable
Which of the following is NOT an example of the tragedy of the commons?
Depletion of soil minerals by farmers on private land
Provides a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found. The lead federal agencies for implementing ESA are. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) The FWS maintains a worldwide list of endangered species
Endangered Species Act
Which of the following requires a recovery plan for increasing endangered populations?
Endangered Species Act
You see a McDonald's worker dumping used cooking oil in a stream behind the restaurant. What government agency would you contact about this issue?
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
_______ promotes the fair and equitable treatment of all people
Environmental justice
The elements carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen combined make up about 96% of our bodies (carbon is about 18%). Carbon is necessary for life because it is a(n)
Excellent bonder
A control of a system in response to the results of that system's processes that either brings the system to anew state or return to its original state
Feedback mechanism
Global warming is caused by
Greenhouse gases, cars, boats, and fossil fuel use
Which of the following is a component of environmental science?
How the natural world works, how the environment affects us, and how we affect the environment
An ecosystem is a location on Earth that includes
Interacting biotic and abiotic components
The study of environmental science primarily considers
Interactions among human systems and those found in Earth
Which of the following is NOT a property of water?
It absorbs relatively little heat as it vaporizes
What does organic mean (in science)?
It contains carbon
Water is polar. What does that mean?
It is a molecule with opposite charges on opposite ends
Is an international agreement that aimed to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the presence of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere
Kyoto Protocol
All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except
Linguistics
Sustainability means
Living in a way that there is enough resource for now and future generations
Designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out substances responsible
Montreal Protocol
Is an international agreement made in 1987. It was designed to stop the production and import of ozone depleting substances and reduce their concentration in the atmosphere to help protect the earth's ozone layer
Montreal Protocol
This had the goal of decrease production of CFCs by the year 2000
Montreal Protocol
Which of the following is not a molecule?
Na+
Federal land that is designated off-limits to development of any kind but is open to public recreation, such as hiking, nature study, and other activities that have minimal impact on the land
National Park
This agency manages all national parks, many monuments, and other conservation and historic properties
National Park Service
What is the most abundant gas found it the Earth's atmosphere
Nitrogen
A system in which exchanges of matter or energy occur across system boundaries
Open system
Give an example of "loss of biodiversity"
Overfishing
Which of the following correctly lists the 6 "criteria" air pollutants as specified under the Clean Air Act?
Pb, SO2, NOx, CO, PM, and tropospheric O3
Which of the following are both examples of the tragedy of the commons?
Pollution, overpopulation
A United States federal law, first passed in 1957 and since renewed several times, which governs liability-related issues for all non-military nuclear facilities constructed in the United States before 2026
Price Anderson Act
Which of these is not an example of a commons?
Privately owned farms
The Endangered Species Act was a law designed to
Protect species from extinction
The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement set up with the goal of
Reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
Solar energy is a ________________ resource.
Renewable
Enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Establishes cradle to grave tracking of hazardous waste
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Policies to attain fishable and swimmable waters in the United States
Safe Drinking Water Act
Requires minimum safety standards for community water supplies
Safe Drinking Water Act
Law that require sites that have massive cleanup due to hazardous waste contamination callled ____ and being managed by ____
Superfund, Environmental Protection Agency
As CO2 levels increase, _____________
Temperature increases
An international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensusthat (a) global warming is occurring and (b) it is extremely likely that human-made CO2 emissions have predominantly caused it
The Kyoto Meeting
An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. Cut CFCs in half
The Montreal Protocol
An agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptationand finance starting in the year 2020
The Paris Accord
An ecological footprint is
The amount of biologically productive land and water a person uses
What is the best definition of the function of nucleic acids?
They contain the information that makes you and makes you different from every other living thing
Which of the following best describes the primary goal of the Paris Agreement?
To keep the global climate temperature increase to under 2 degrees Celsius
What is a function of lipids?
To provide long term storage of energy
Overgrazing of public land is an example of ___
Tragedy of the Commons
True or False: "Tragedy of The Commons" also relates to people putting harmful producs into our waterways?
True
This agency manages fish, wildlife, and habitats
US Fish and Wildlife Service
This agency is managed by the US Department of Agriculture and manages the 155 National forests and 20 National grasslands
US Forest Service
Living in a sustainable way refers to
Using resources in a way that does not deprive future generations
Which of the following is an example of COHESION?
Water sticking to water
