ES Semester 2 Test Flashcards
In 1987 a barge full of garbage was called?
The Mobro
What do you call the average weather in an area?
Climate
The scaring of the lung tissue?
Emphysema
One indoor pollutant?
Asbestos
If a building is contaminated with asbestos it has what?
Sick building syndrome
The layer of atmosphere where you find the ozone?
The stratosphere
Name two Greenhouse gases?
Co2 and Methane
What punched a hole in the ozone layer?
CFC’s
The chemical soup made from a landfill?
Lechate
Chemical formula for ozone?
O3
An odorless, colorless, radioactive indoor pollutant?
Radon
A pollutant put directly into the air by humans is called what?
Primary Pollutant
In order for a lake to be acidic it would need a PH level of what?
1
A farmer who grows enough food for his family is called?
Subsistence farmer
People moving out of a country?
Emigrants
A food shortage so widespread it causes a what?
Famine
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs?
Troposphere
What makes up the air?
78% Nitrogen
20% Oxygen
0.2% Argon
Layers of the atmosphere
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Ionosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
