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APES 7th period JaViER aYaLa

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the National Environmental Policy Act?

a)

An act requiring that all executive federal agencies prepare environmental assessments to state potential impacts on the environment.

b)

An act enforcing to have an annual day where public transportation was free

c)

An act requiring an annual day where no water for gardening uses is allowed

d)

An act requiring that car manufacturers make at least 50% of their inventory be eco-friendly

2.

What is the Endangered Species Act?

a)

An act that prevents public zoos from having exotic animals

b)

An act that prevents the hunting of certain animals listed in a specific area

c)

An act that provides conservation of species that are endangered or threatened (and their ecosystems) throughout all or a significant portion of their environment

d)

An act that prohibits exotic animals from being kept as pets

3.

The Safe Drinking Water Act is an act that requires the EPA to set standards for drinking water quality and oversee all states, localities, and water suppliers that implement the standards. Does it apply to bottled water?

a)

yes

b)

yeah

c)

no

d)

nah

4.

What does the Clean Water Act do?

a)

Requires bottled water to pass through a series of purity tests

b)

Requires monthly testing of water quality of a random place of every city in every state

c)

Regulates emissions of factories that are near bodies of water

d)

Regulates pollutants discharges waste water into the aquifers of the United States.

5.

What is the Kyoto Protocol?

a)

An United Nations treaty that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

b)

An early version of the Paris Climate Agreement

c)

An internarional agreement to help Kyoto, Japan after a devasting tsnami

d)

A legislation act passed in Japan, regulating factories that are heavy CO2 emitters

6.

What does the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act do?

a)

It provides a Federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment.

b)

It requires a plan to be submitted to the EPA before construction of any site that may affect the environment.

c)

It requires an environmental impact report to be submitted for construction projects ready to be started.

7.

The Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants that become widely distributed geographically, accumulate in the fatty tissue of humans and wildlife, and have harmful impacts on human health or on the environment. This is a

a)

United States treaty

b)

United Nations treaty

8.

What does the CITES acronym mean?

a)

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

b)

Campus Informational Technologies And Educational Services

c)

Committee International Treaty Of Endangered Species

d)

Center for Improvement of Teacher Education Schooling

9.

When did the Clean Air Act pass legislation?

a)

1956

b)

1957

c)

1970

d)

1972

10.

The Water Quality Act of 1965 required states to issue water quality standards for interstate waters, and authorized the newly created Federal Water Pollution Control Administration to set standards where states failed to do so.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

T

d)

F

11.

The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States. SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Rachel Carson

a)

Was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement

b)

Was a German Jewish physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. He invented the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria.

c)

Was an American ecologist and philosopher who warned of the dangers of overpopulation.

d)

Was an American author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist

13.

Garret Hardin

a)

Was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.

b)

Was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography

c)

Was an internationally renowned Kenyan environmental political activist and Nobel laureate

d)

Was an American ecologist and philosopher who warned of the dangers of overpopulation

14.

Aldo Leopold

a)

Was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science

b)

Was an American forester and politician; he served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910

c)

Was an American author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist

d)

Is an Israeli actress and model. She was born and raised in Israel. At age 18 she was crowned Miss Israel 2004. She then served two years in the Israel Defense Forces as a combat instructor.

15.

John Muir

a)

Was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the U.S.

b)

Is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert.

c)

Was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor

d)

Was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist; led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people

16.

Gifford Pinchot

a)

Was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

b)

Was an American forester and politician; he served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910

c)

Was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer

d)

Was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, and protestor.

17.

E.O Wilson

a)

Was an American Republican and Progressive politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the Governor of Wisconsin.

b)

Was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution

c)

Was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe

d)

Is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert