Apes 7

Question 1

Policy

Answer 1

Defined as a plan or course of action

Question 2

National Environmental Policy Act

Answer 2

This act created the Council in Environmental Quality and required the submission of an environmental impact statement before any major federal action could be taken

Question 3

Environmental protection Agency

Answer 3

Consolidate two agencies that had environmental responsibilities

Question 4

Pollutant prevention Act

Answer 4

Designed to promote source reduction

Question 5

Environmental Education Act

Answer 5

Established the office of environmental Education within the environmental protection Agency to develop and administer a federal environmental education program

Question 6

Non-governmental Organizations

Answer 6

New grassroots environmental organizations growing throughout the US

Question 7

Cap-and-trade policy

Answer 7

An approach that provides economic incentives for limiting emissions of pollutants

Question 8

Market permits

Answer 8

Cap and trade permits that they work in this way: companies are allowed to buy permits that allow them to discharge a certain amount of substance into a certain environmental outlet

Question 9

Globalization

Answer 9

When the world becomes more interconnected through technology

Question 10

Montreal Accord 1978

Answer 10

Cut the emissions of CFCs that damage the ozone layer

Question 11

Kyoto Protocol 1997

Answer 11

Required the participating 38 developed countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions back to 5% below 1990 levels

Question 12

Golden age of conservation

Answer 12

Roosevelt’s term as president because of the many environmentally friendly laws and policies he put into effect

Question 12

Sustainability

Answer 12

Working in the biotic and abiotic environments in a way that ensures they are capable of functioning sustainability

Question 13

Water rights

Answer 13

The person who first files a claim on water resource has a right to the use of the water

Question 14

Green taxes

Answer 14

Taxing bads instead of goods

Question 15

International Environmental Protection Act

Answer 15

Authorized the president to assist countries in protecting and maintaining wildlife habitats and in developing sound and wildlife management and plant conservation programs

Question 16

Basel convention on the control of the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes

Answer 16

169 parties aimed to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects resulting from the generation, management, transboundary movements, and disposal of hazardous and other wastes