Environmental Policy Review

What policies gave the federal government the right to manage unsettled lands? (there are 2 correct answers)

• Land Ordinance Act of 1785

• Forest Reserve Act

• Northwest Ordinance

• National Park Service

Which policy states citizens could claim 160 acres of public land after living on it for five years?

• Superfund

• Pollution Prevention Act

• Northwest Ordinance

• Homestead Act

Which policy protected wooded areas?

• Superfund

• Homestead Act

• Forest Reserve Act

• National Park Service Act

Which of the following came during the last period of Environmental Policy?

• National Park Service Act

• Forest Reserve Act

• Pollution Prevention Act

• Homestead Act

Which made it unlawful for people to discharge pollutants into the water?

• Superfund

• Clean Water Act

• Pollution Prevention Act

• National Environmental Policy Act

Which environmental policy period was focused on cleaning up pollution and the health of the Earth?

• First and second

• Second

• Third and Modern time

• First and Third

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

True or False: The first environmental policy period focused on moving people out west.

• True

• False

What does the Superfund Act do?

• Provides money to clean up polluted areas.

• Keeps people from polluting waterways

• Makes it illegal to burn fossil fuels.

• Gives unemployed people jobs planting trees

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

The second period of environmental policy was due to _____

• pollution in the waterways

• air pollution

• overuse of resources in the West

• Over-crowded cities on the East coast.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which branches of the government are involved in the creation of environmental policy?

• All 3

• Only the judicial and executive

• Only the legislative and executive

• Only the judicial