Environmental Final Review

Policies to attain fishable and swimmable waters in the United States

• Clean Water Act

• Kyoto Protocol

• Montreal Protocol

• Safe Drinking Water Act

Which would be a violation of the CITES treaty?

• hunting wild turkeys

• polluting lakes

• selling tiger skins

• clearing rain forests

Identifies hazardous waste sites & provides the funding for cleaning them up:

• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Air Act

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

• Montreal Protocol

International law where countries agree to cut back on carbon emissions to curb climate change

• Montreal Protocol

• Kyoto Protocol

• Stockholm Agreement

• CITES

Why was the Montreal Protocol created?

• To protect Canadian wildlife endangered by Greenhouse Gases

• To protect the "good" ozone layer in the lower atmosphere

• To protect "good" ozone layer in the upper atmosphere

• To reduce the impact of Acid Rain on the environment

As the Earth warms, increased evaporation produces more clouds. Clouds increase reflection of light (albedo), reflecting more light away from the Earth. The temperature falls. Rates of evaporation now fall.

• Positive Feedback Loop

• Negative Feedback Loop

What is formed during primary succession that doesn't need to be formed during secondary succession?

• pioneer species
• soil
• climax community
• lichens

Which catastrophic event will most likely have the effect of returning an ecosystem to primary succession?

• A tornado
• A volcanic eruption
• A flood
• A drought

In general, algal blooms occur when

• toxins accumulate in shellfish.

• nutrients decrease in the water.

• nutrients increase in the water.

In a dead zone, _________ levels are really low such that living organisms are not able survive.

• nitrogen

• oxygen

• fertilizer

• carbon dioxide