ES Semester 2 Test Flashcards

1
Q

In 1987 a barge full of garbage was called?

A

The Mobro

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2
Q

What do you call the average weather in an area?

A

Climate

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3
Q

The scaring of the lung tissue?

A

Emphysema

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4
Q

One indoor pollutant?

A

Asbestos

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5
Q

If a building is contaminated with asbestos it has what?

A

Sick building syndrome

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6
Q

The layer of atmosphere where you find the ozone?

A

The stratosphere

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7
Q

Name two Greenhouse gases?

A

Co2 and Methane

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8
Q

What punched a hole in the ozone layer?

A

CFC’s

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9
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The chemical soup made from a landfill?

A

Lechate

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10
Q

Chemical formula for ozone?

A

O3

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11
Q

An odorless, colorless, radioactive indoor pollutant?

A

Radon

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12
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A pollutant put directly into the air by humans is called what?

A

Primary Pollutant

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13
Q

In order for a lake to be acidic it would need a PH level of what?

A

1

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14
Q

A farmer who grows enough food for his family is called?

A

Subsistence farmer

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15
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People moving out of a country?

A

Emigrants

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16
Q

A food shortage so widespread it causes a what?

A

Famine

17
Q

The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs?

A

Troposphere

18
Q

What makes up the air?

A

78% Nitrogen
20% Oxygen
0.2% Argon

19
Q

Layers of the atmosphere

A

Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Ionosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere