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DSST Environmental Science
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Death rate
Birth rate
8.37%
Decrease in death and birth rates
Herbivores
2. Often regarded as the main culprit in cases of eutrophication in lakes subjected to point source pollution from sewage. The concentration of algae and the trophic state of lakes correspond well to phosphorous levels in water. Humankind has increased
Recycle
Future impacts of global warming
Ecosystems
Phosphorous
3. The effect industrialization initially has on birth and death rates
EPA
Oil (petroleum)
Strip farming
Decrease in death and birth rates
4. Set limits to protect public welfare - including protection against decreased visibility - damage to animals - crops - vegetation - and buildings
Secondary standards
Western Asia
Detrivores
Global warming
5. The ocean water pollutant that is the most damaging
Ecosystems
Oil (petroleum)
Omnivore
Double HDEP liners
6. Is dealt with the secondary treatment phase when it becomes activated -----. It is then treated for disposal using anaerobic - aerobic or other means.
Sludge
Phosphorous
Carnivores
8.37%
7. Refers to the combined physical and biological components of an environment.
Secondary treatment
Mass transit
Ecosystems
Cultural Eutrophication
8. As the CO2 gasses continue to rise it is causing a mass heating effect which is melting ------- ----- ----. At the current rate of global warming the entire --- --- will be melted in the next few decades
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9. Water pollution affecting a water body from different sources - such as polluted runoff from agricultural areas draining into a ricer - or wind-borne debris blowing out to sea. NPS may derive from many different sources with no specific solution to r
Biomes
Nonpoint source pollution
Greenhouse effect
USA
10. Form gradually where the overburden is thin. The dissolving limestone is replaced by sand granules the t fall into the depression and fill the holes. They appear as a concave depression in the ground. ------ ------ are usually only a few feet in diam
Subsidence sinkholes
Strip farming
Antarctica's Ice Cap
Tertiary treatment
11. A federal agency charged with protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by congress
Contour farming
Recycle
Secondary succession
EPA
12. Sometimes defined as anything more than primary and secondary treatment. Treated water is sometimes disinfected chemically or physically (for example by lagoons and microfiltration) prior to discharge into a water source.
Sludge
Aerobic
Future impacts of global warming
Tertiary treatment
13. A nuclear accident that occurred on April 26 - 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - part of the Soviet Union). It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and is t
Chernobyl disaster
Subsidence sinkholes
Contour farming
Secondary treatment
14. Consists of temporarily holding the sewage in a quiescent basin where heavy solids can settle to the bottom while oil - grease and lighter solids float to the surface. The settled and floating materials are removed and the remaining liquid may be dis
Primary treatment
Screening
Western Asia
Nonpoint source pollution
15. Are climatically and geographically defined as similar climatic conditions on the earth - such as communities of plants - animals - and soil organisms and are often referred to as ecosystems.
Secondary treatment
Greenhouse effect
Omnivore
Biomes
16. A natural process that occurs in an aging lake or pond as that body of water gradually builds up its concentration of plant nutrients
Future impacts of global warming
Natural eutrophication
Birth rate
Decrease in death and birth rates
17. A colorless - odorless - non-flammable gas and is the most prominent greenhouse gas in Earth's atmosphere. It is recycled through the atmosphere by the process of photosynthesis - which makes human life possible. Is one of the greenhouse gasses. The
Carbon dioxide
Pretreatment
EPA
Screening
18. Depending on free oxygen or air
Anaerobic
Aerobic
Nonpoint source pollution
Antarctica's Ice Cap
19. The primary suggested method of disposing municipal solid waste as per EPA guidelines after preventing waste in the first place.
Taiga
Recycle
Chernobyl disaster
Anaerobic
20. Current world population growth
Secondary succession
1.14%
USA
Carbon dioxide
21. The person who started the phrase: 'greenhouse effect' If this person isn't an option choose Pouillet
Fourier
Cultural Eutrophication
Primary treatment
Double HDEP liners
22. Animals that are adapted to eat plants
Ecosystems
Primary succession
Herbivores
Fourier
23. Could be melting of the polar ice caps - destruction of coral reefs - severe winters and summers - excessive rain fall in some areas and not enough in others - drought - etc.
Tertiary treatment
Double HDEP liners
Future impacts of global warming
Secondary standards
24. Set limits to protect public health - including the health of 'sensitive' populations such as asthmatics - children - and the elderly
Primary standards
EPA
Mass transit
Poverty
25. 19% - 20% increasing when compared to death rate
EPA
Birth rate
Greenhouse effect
Strip farming
26. A very week direct greenhouse gas but has important indirect effects on global warming. Reacts with hydroxyl (OH) radicals in the atmosphere - reducing their abundance. As OH radicals help to reuse the lifetimes of strong greenhouse gasses - like met
Anaerobic
USA
Carbon monoxide
Primary treatment
27. Two main factors that influence a region's climate
EPA
1.14%
Birth rate
Temperature and precipitation
28. A recent warming of the Earth's surface and lower atmosphere - it is believed to be the result of a strengthening of the greenhouse effect mostly due to human produced increases in atmospheric greenhouse gasses.
EPA
Subsidence sinkholes
Global warming
Fourier
29. Requires the EPA to set national ambient air quality standards for pollutants considered harmful to public health and the environment.
Subsidence sinkholes
Clean air act
Recycle
Future impacts of global warming
30. A vehicle that transports more than a few people. Ex- busses - trains - subways - etc. NOT your van/car
Carbon dioxide
Secondary standards
Mass transit
Global warming
31. Removes dissolved and suspended biological matter. Typically performed by indigenous - water-borne micro-organisms in a managed habitat. May require a separation process to remove the micro-organisms from the treated water prior to discharge or terti
Secondary treatment
Birth rate
Herbivores
Contour farming
32. What country is the biggest producer of Hazardous waste?
Secondary treatment
USA
Fourier
Omnivore
33. A process by which radioactive energy leaving a planetary surface is absorbed by some atmospheric gasses called greenhouse gasses. They transfer this energy to other components of the atmosphere and it is re-radiated in all directions - including bac
Greenhouse effect
Fourier
Global warming
Secondary treatment
34. Feature found in 'state of the art' landfills
Poverty
Pretreatment
Carnivores
Double HDEP liners
35. The main cause and effects of infant mortality in developing nations
Poverty
Aerobic
Nonpoint source pollution
Carnivores
36. Also known as the boreal forest - is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Long and cold winters are the dominant feature of the ----- biome. The temperature in a ----- biome can range from -76 to 104 degrees.
Birth rate
Taiga
Carbon dioxide
Northeast
37. Begins in areas where the soil is already present
Secondary succession
Carnivores
Ecosystems
Secondary treatment
38. A method of farming used when a slope is too steep or too long - or when the other types of farming may not prevent soil erosion. ------ farming alternates strips of closely sown crops such as hay - wheat - or other small grains with strips of row cr
Strip farming
Poverty
Sludge
Greenhouse effect
39. The practice of plowing across a slope following its elevation contour lines. The rows formed slows water run-off during rainstorms to prevent soil erosion and allows the water time to settle into the soil. In -------- plowing - the ruts made by the
Biomes
Fourier
Contour farming
Antarctica's Ice Cap
40. The scientific study of the distributions - abundance - share affects - and relations of organisms and their interactions with each other in a common environment.
Ecology
Aerobic
Screening
Strip farming
41. Begins in areas where no soil is initially present
Future impacts of global warming
Primary succession
Greenhouse effect
Global warming
42. A part of the pre-treatment phase of wastewater treatment. ----- is when influent sewage water is strained to remove all large objects carried in the sewage system.
Tertiary treatment
Screening
Fourier
Subsidence sinkholes
43. Obtain nutrients by eating dead and rotten things. Ex- earthworms
Detrivores
Pretreatment
Decrease in death and birth rates
Chernobyl disaster
44. Animals that eat mainly or only meat
Herbivores
Birth rate
Primary treatment
Carnivores
45. A species that eats both plants and animals as their primary food source. ex- pigs
Omnivore
Primary succession
Clean air act
1.14%
46. Occurs when human activity introduces increased amounts of plant nutrients - which speed up plant growth and eventually choke the lake of all its animal life.
Strip farming
Contour farming
Cultural Eutrophication
Phosphorous
47. Which global region's population is increasing more than the others? (if not there - pick Africa)
USA
Biomes
Primary treatment
Western Asia
48. Living or active in the absence of free oxygen
Contour farming
Clean air act
Anaerobic
Secondary treatment
49. Wastewater treatment. Screening and grit removal
Fourier
Secondary treatment
Pretreatment
Temperature and precipitation
50. Which region of the U.S. is most affected by acid rain?
Nonpoint source pollution
Northeast
Sludge
8.37%