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WorksheetsAP Environmental Science Legislation
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 23mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This act was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creations of law to protect the environment. This act was also established to handle problems such as acid rain, ground-level ozone, and air toxics.
a)
Clean Air Act
b)
Clean Water Act
c)
Energy Policy Act
d)
Department of Energy
2.
This is the federal organization that ensures that all Americans are protected against specific hazards to the environment and human health where they learn, work and live.
a)
Department of Energy
b)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
c)
Environmental Protection Agency
d)
Energy Policy Act
3.
Requires that the government, businesses, and people prevent or reduce the amount of any substance entering the air, waterways, and land. The act establishes activities for recycling, source reduction, and sustainable agriculture. It helps to promote the conservation of energy, water, and natural resources.
a)
Clean Air Act
b)
Clean Water Act
c)
National Environmental Policy Act
d)
Pollution Prevention Act
4.
Which act was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient AirQuality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creations of law to protect the environment?
a)
National Environmental Policy Act
b)
Clean Air Act
c)
Energy Independence and Security Act
d)
Energy Policy Act
5.
Which act protects fish, shellfish, and wildlife in rivers, lakes, streams and oceans?
a)
Pollution Prevention Act
b)
Energy Independence and Security Act
c)
Energy Policy Act
d)
Clean Water Act
6.
Which act increases clean renewable fuel production, research on greenhouse gas, and improves thegovernment’s energy performance?
a)
Pollution Prevention Act
b)
Energy Independence and Security Act
c)
Energy Policy Ac
d)
Clean Water Act
7.
Which act established a national policy and goals for the protection, maintenance, and enrichment of theenvironment?
a)
Clean Air Act
b)
National Environmental Policy Act
c)
Energy Independence and Security Act
d)
Energy Policy Act
8.
According to federal law, companies that produce hazardous waste must track and account for the waste from its creation ________________.
a)
until they pass it along to someone else
b)
until its eventual disposal
c)
until the company closes
d)
until no one is paying attention
9.
Integrated waste management arranges all of the strategies of dealing with municipal solid waste in order, from top-to-bottom, with the goal of minimizing what ends up in a landfill. The first step in waste management is _____________.
a)
incineration
b)
reuse
c)
recycling
d)
reduction
10.
_____________ is the process of reclaiming raw materials and reusing them to create new products.
a)
Reducing
b)
Repurposing
c)
Recycling
d)
Composting
11.
A(n) _______________ is specially designed to safely hold municipal solid waste, construction debris, and some types of agricultural and industrial waste.
a)
sanitary landfill
b)
open dump
c)
waste pit
d)
dumpster
12.
The containment, cleanup, or remediation of abandoned toxic waste sites is governed by a program known as ______________.
a)
Superfund
b)
Superclean
c)
Superdump
d)
Federal Toxic Act
13.
According to federal Recovery and Reclamation law, companies that produce hazardous waste must track and account for the waste from its creation ________________.
a)
until they pass it along to someone else
b)
until its eventual disposal
c)
until the company closes
d)
until no one is paying attention
14.
The containment, cleanup, or remediation of abandoned toxic waste sites is governed by a program known as ______________.
a)
Superfund
b)
Superclean
c)
Superdump
d)
Federal Toxic Act
15.
Sometimes, a company that generates pollution will pay extra taxes, based on the amount of pollution it produces. These are known as
a)
Command & control taxes
b)
Green taxes
c)
Cap & trade taxes
d)
Subsidy taxes
16.
What law protects vulnerable animals?
a)
Prevention of Animal Extinction Act
b)
Endangered Species Act
c)
Threatened and Endangered Species Laws
d)
Animal Control Act
17.
What does GMO stand for?
a)
Genetically Modified Organism
b)
Genius Modified Organism
c)
Genetically Modified Organelle
d)
Genetically Magical Organism
18.
The impact one person has on the environment by use of fossil fuels is a good definition of ...
a)
A carbon footprint
b)
Greenhouse Gas
c)
Photosynthesis
d)
Carbon-Oxygen Cycle
19.
After the third half-life, how much of the sample is left?
a)
1/2
b)
1/3
c)
1/16
d)
1/8
20.
The largest population that an environment can maintain indefinitely:
a)
environmental resistance
b)
survivorship
c)
density dependent
d)
carrying capacity
21.
Which government organization monitors diseases in the U.S.?
a)
FDA
b)
CDC
c)
EPA
d)
G-8
22.
The U.S. law that requires developers to study the environmental impact of projects funded by the federal government is
a)
RCRA
b)
NEPA
c)
CITES
d)
ENSO
23.
•________________________is an area of hypoxic (lacking oxygen) water at the mouth of the Mississippi River, caused by fertilizer and nutrients dumped into the river.
a)
Artificial Eutrophication
b)
Dead Zones
c)
The Dead Sea
d)
The Red Tide
24.
Evidence that ____________________________________ is occurring include;
Rising Sea Levels
Wild fires
Drought
Increase intensity or Storms
Glacial Retreat
Rising Sea Levels
Wild fires
Drought
Increase intensity or Storms
Glacial Retreat
a)
Climate Change
b)
Greenhouse Effect
c)
Ozone Layer Depletion
d)
Acid Deposition
25.
an international treaty among industrialized nations that sets mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. The greenhouse effect is the warming effect of the sun on greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, that act to trap this heat in our atmosphere.
a)
Montreal Protocol
b)
Kyoto Protocol
c)
G7 Summit
d)
EPA
26.
Commits developing countries to lowering Greenhouse gas emissions and the countries that aren't developed to not exceed a certain amount of gas emission.
a)
Paris Agreement
b)
Montreal Protocol
c)
Kyoto Protocol
d)
Green Revolution
27.
•_________________________________is a global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances (chlorofluorocarbons)
a)
Kyoto Protocol
b)
Paris Agreement
c)
The US Constitution
d)
The Montreal Protocol
28.
A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
a)
Lacey Act
b)
FIFRA
c)
Wilderness Act
d)
. CERCLA
29.
Created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
a)
National Parks Service Act
b)
Soil Conservation Act
c)
Antiquities Act
d)
Wilderness Act
30.
Enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste
a)
Montreal Protocol
b)
The Kyoto Meeting
c)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
d)
The Price Anderson Act
31.
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.
a)
CERCLA
b)
Resource Conservation Recovery Act
c)
The Montreal Protocol
d)
Atomic Energy Act
32.
Mandates that land be minimally disturbed during the mining process and reclaimed after mining is completed.
a)
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensations & Liability Act
b)
Kyoto Protocol
c)
Resource Conservation & Recovery Act
d)
Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act
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