PWS 150 Final Exam TA Review Part 1 Quiz!

Which two compounds are acid rain made of?

The ozone is located in the Mesosphere.

In deep well injections, wastes are stored:

Raising the average fuel economy standards (cafe standards) addresses all EXCEPT:

Many past landfills are now parks and recreation areas.

How much of plastic can we recycle into carpet, clothes, building stuff, sheet plastic, or irrigation drainage tiles?

Acid rain is a primary pollutant.

Melting sea ice is more problematic to the ocean than melting land ice.

Municipal solid waste is non hazardous industrial waste.

Why is CO2 so effective in climate change if the warming potential is only 1?

What was the pioneers' creed?

Minamata's problem was with mercury in the bay and fish.

Acid rain is ________ more acidic than usual rain.

What had the greatest warming potential?

While ____ of yard wastes are composted, recycling aluminum (54%) saves _____ of the energy to make cans from ore.

What layer contains 80% of the mass and 99% of the water in the atmosphere?

In Primary recycling, waste is recycled into different products that may or may not be recyclable afterwards.

Adaptation involved:

Who is the world leader in sustainable waste management? Less than 1% of its trash is in landfills.

Which of the following reasons is NOT why Native Alaskans threatened by climate change?

Lifespans of pollutants vary due to reactivity, so highly reactive hydrocarbons are:

What is the leading cause of CO2 in the atmosphere over the last 100 years

The Mesosphere is the middle layer.

When sewage was in the streets, people living upstream of the cities had higher rates of drinking water contamination.

Barrels have to be buried underground for it to be a secure landfill.

Mitigation involved:

Anthropogenic activities (human-caused) are a major factor in climate change.

In the Thermosphere, temperature increases with height.

Practicing no-till farming can mitigate dead zones.

The best way to reduce photochemical smog is to reduce driving.

The second wastewater treatment is also known as biological treatment.

A car in the summer is like us with the Greenhouse Effect.

Why do we use anaerobic digestion (bacteria eat sludge without oxygen)?

Deep wells can't keep toxic wastes from contaminating water.

The dangerous part of CFCs is the released Chlorine atom.

Ozone is a pollutant when in the Stratosphere.

What were early paints contaminated with?

Municipal solid waste comes from:

What river caught fire from pollution, resulting in the Clean Water Act 1972?

Superfund sites' main existence is to clean up:

Temperature Inversion: cool air over warm air, where temps are warmer near ground.

What is it called when you follow the total life cycle of a product and the wastes that come at each step?

Cholorfluorocarbons are nonreactive, nonflammable, toxic organic molecules.

CFCs are used in all EXCEPT:

What is this picture, where solid wastes settle and water evaporates?

There are only 32 landfills in North America that receive off-site hazardous wastes.

Most of the pollution and water vapor is in the Stratosphere.

If we recycled half of the recyclable material we throw away, we'd decrease waste/ pollution by 35%, but use more energy

What percentage of glaciers are retreating?

What incident highlighted how weather conditions can intensify smog?

Pollutants in the Trophosphere are removed within hours or days but can stay longer in the upper Trophosphere.

Rain with 4.6 pH is 10 times more acidic than normal rain due to:

What are formed from the photochemical breakdown of trophospheric ozone?

The most likely cause for the dead zone in the Gulf is water pollution from the streets gathered by the Mississipi River

The primary wastewater treatment involves:

The Business as Usual model is what would happen if we only try to slow down our emissions.

Love Canal, NY was when 21,100 tons of toxic waste from ______________ seeped into neighborhoods and schools.

In 1960 the US produced 2.7 lb/person/day. What did we produce (2012) that was enough to fill 95,000 garbage trucks/day?

How much of glass can we recycle into new containers, fiberglass, or glassphalt?

There is an increased health risk when people use the same river for washing, drinking, and sewage.

In eutrophication, there are high nutrients and high oxygen.

Sweden burns trash to make energy (electricity).

How much of the Sun's energy is radiated back into space?

Why will the Greenland ice sheet displace a lot of water?

Photochemical smog is also known as:

What is the most serious problem with landfills?

Why did we stop burning municipal solid waste in open dumps (or using incinerators) in the 1960s?

Acid Mine drainage can contain excess of all EXCEPT:

Hydroxyl radicals remove pollutants from the atmosphere.

Municipal solid waste is collected by local governments.

How much of paper can we recycle into paper, cardboard, insulation, or compost?

What is a warm-cool cycle over the Pacific over several decades (IPO)?

Raising cafe standards (Corporate average fuel economy) will result in better gas mileage and less air pollution.

A thick plastic lining can protect against groundwater contamination in landfills.

3/4 of Inuit women have PCB levels ___ x above safe levels.

What is a brownish, irritating haze in warm, sunny areas that typically arises during morning traffic?

Where would we find the most industrial smog?

Donora, Penn. caused a deadly fog because of a sulphur mill and:

What areas are most affected by the increasing temperature?

Climate patterns are becoming:

Fertilizer in most aquatic systems leads to all EXCEPT:

The Inuit women getting too much PCB would be secondary consumers.

Synthetic organic compounds are not easily absorbed.

Best way to reduce disease caused by sewage is to:

The best way to reduce GHG is to increase energy efficiency and renewables.

From the closest to Earth until the farthest, what are the layers of the atmosphere?

Annual temperatures don't change much from land versus water.

Superfund sites are used primarily when no one can be identified as responsible for the pollution.

Most water in storm drains are from:

What layer is dry and ozone rich?

What atmospheric layer is stratified by temperature and creates inversion layers over another layer?

Synthetic organic compounds are resistant to degradation.

The Clean Air Act of 1970 listed 6 criteria pollutants, which is NOT some of them?

97% of scientists agree that human activities are causing global warming.

Buried wastes undergo________ to produce biogas.

The threshold level for harmful effects of toxic pollutants gets ______ as exposure time ________.

El Nino/La Nina is a natural phenomenon where changes in ocean currents alter weather patterns.

CO2 emissions are reaching over 200 ppm.

Photochemical smog happens in areas with:

Wastes in deep well injections react with natural materials, leaving them less hazardous.