Barrons AP Environmental Science

maintain navigation channels and berthing areas. Other materials that are disposed of in the oceans incl ...

■ Recycling reduces the dependence on foreign oil. ■ Recycling reduces air and water pollution. ■ Bottle bills provide ...

materials, etc.). ■ Refillable glass bottles can be reused up to 15 times. ■ Cloth diapers do not impact landfills. ...

■ People may say NIMBY (not in my backyard). ■ Degradable plastics do not decompose completely and take a ...

contamination cannot be easily seen. A 2014 Chinese study showed that almost 20% of soil and arable la ...

(B) Benzene (C) Radiation (D) PCBs or polychlorinated biphenyls (E) All of the above are considered teratogens. Which ...

(E) 8.3 According to the Environmental Protection Agency, about __ of all commercial buildings in the United St ...

(B) SO 2 (C) CO 2 (D) O 3 (E) Pb The diagram below shows the range of organisms found within certain sections ...

(B) factories (C) agriculture (D) petroleum refining (E) mining wastes What is the largest type of domestic solid ...

in the United States? (A) Incineration (B) Dumping it in open landfills (C) Burying it underground (D) Exporting the m ...

be brought about? (b) Explain the difference between remediation and alleviation of an environmental problem. Use the ex ...

10: Impacts on the Environment and Human Health HAZARDS TO HUMAN HEALTH Environmental Risk Environmental risk is ...

certain exposure of time. This may apply to individuals (e.g., a small amount has no significant effect wher ...

LD 50 The dose of a pollutant or drug that kills 50% of the members of a tested population. It ...

Agency has separated hazardous wastes into the categories that follow. Corrosive Corrosive wastes are stron ...

handle radioactive material. These sites must: ■ Be located in areas that do not experience much rain (t ...

RELEVANT LAWS FEDERAL HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES ACT (1960): This act requires that certain hazardous household product ...

streams, rivers, and lakes through urban runoff. ■ It reduces the amount of contaminated material entering ...

the plants—which now contain the heavy metal contaminants in their tissues—are removed and disposed of as hazard ...

Landfill capping is a containment technology that forms a barrier between the contaminated media and the ...