EP Final: Previous Exams
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- Tragedy of the Commons
- An inability to solve env. problems as a result of people pursuing 'short-term' individual gain on 'common properties'.
- Industrial smog is worst during which seasons?
- Winter.
- What are the two major international organizational frameworks that deal with C.C.?
- UNFCCC and the IPCC.
- An example of what measure? "car pooling, purchase organic products, consume less resources, reuse products."
- Voluntary Measure.
- Oligotropic Condition
- The opposite condition to Eutrophication.
- Biological Oxygen Demand
- the amount of oxygen needed by microorganisms to decompose biological wastes into carbon dioxide, water, and minerals.
- Ecological Foot Print
- "an average amount of productive land, fresh water, and ocean required to supply the person food, wood, energy, water housing, transportation and waste disposal."
- The best front kit for an s2000?
- Mugen
- Photochemical Smog is worst during which seasons?
- Summer.
- What are the two things under the Kyoto Protocol?
- Mitigation and Adaptation.
- Bad ozone is found in the?
- Troposphere.
- Ozone is the most harmful/serious component of?
- Photochemical Smog.
- What are the major reasons why flood problems are more serious today?
- More people living in the flood plains, Forests are cleared, urban development --> more runoff into streams, and urban envt.
- 5 major types of water pollution: Oxygen-...
- demanding wastes.
- 5 major types of water pollution: Sedi...
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- Dr. Yamane
- Eutrophication
- enrichment of a water body by various nutrients (e.g. nitrogen and phosphorous).
- An example of what measure? "Carbon Tax, penalty for pollution (fine)."
- Command and Control Regulatory Measures.
- Biological Magnification
- Increased concentration of toxic chemicals.
- Why does ozone thinning occur in Antarctica and Arctic?
- Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs).
- Cultural Eutrophication
- If it's human induced of Eutrophication.
- An example of what measure? "Government subsidies for purchasing 'environmentally sound goods' , carbon trading."
- Incentive Measure.
- Persistence
- Characteristic of certain chemicals that are extremely stable and may take many years to be broken down into simpler forms by natural processes.
- 5 major types of water pollution: Toxic...
- minerals and inorganic compounds synthetic organic compounds.
- What is Chloroflurocarbons (CFCs)?
- Aerosol sprays, gas for air conditioning, refrigerators.
- What is the name of Protocol that deals with Ozone thinning?
- Montreal Protocol.
- 5 major types of water pollution: Thermal...
- Discharge.
- What is the major cause of ozone thinning?
- Chloroflurocarbons (CFCs).
- 5 major types of water pollution: Disease-...
- causing organisms.
- What are the two types of smog?
- Industrial and Photochemical Smog.
- An example of what measure? "Wind, solar, biofuel...development of alternatives to fossil fuels, scrubber, electrostatic precipiators..."
- Technological Measure.
- In which sector (agriculture, industry and domestic) have we seen the largest increase in water consumption?
- Agriculture.
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- Witherspoon
- How do we monitor the presence of disease-causing agents?
- Fecal Coliform Test. Use E.Coli as an indicator to measure disease-causing agents.
- What is Polar stratospheric clouds?
- Icy clouds cause changes in the abundances of reactive chlorine gases.
- What are the three main principles that address environmental pollution?
- Polluter Pay Principle, Prevention Principles and Precautionary Principles.
- Acid Deposition
- Reaction of SO2 + NOx
- Bioaccumulation
- Buildup of a persistent toxic substances in an organism's body.
- Good ozone is found in the?
- Stratosphere.
- Temperature Inversion
- A deviation from the normal temperature distribution in the atmosphere, resulting in a layer of cold air temporarily trapped near the ground by a warmer, upper layer.
- Protocol introduced under the UNFCCC?
- Kyoto Protocol.