Jeopardy: APES 2nd Semester Review

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A: Env Laws

B: Ag & Pest

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C: Water Resources & Pollution

D: Geology & Mineral Resources

E: Solid & Hazardous

Waste

Final Jeopardy

F: Energy – Non-

renewable, Renewable

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A-100

• ANSWER: Requires EPA approval for use of all commercial pesticides

• QUESTION: What is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)?

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A-200• ANSWER: The governing law and

program that pay to clean up inactive/abandoned hazardous waste sites

• QUESTION: What are CERCLA1 and the Superfund?

1Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

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A-300

• ANSWER: Requires restoration of land to its original condition

• QUESTION: What is the major requirement of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977?

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A-400

• ANSWER: Requires polluters to obtain permits for discharging pollutants into aquatic systems and sets standards for allowed levels of key water pollutants

• QUESTION: What is the Clean Water Act?

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A-500

• ANSWER: gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the "cradle-to-grave."

• QUESTION: What is RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)?

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• ANSWER: The 3 crops that provide over ½ the calories humans consume worldwide

• QUESTION: What are wheat, rice and corn?

B-100

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B-200• ANSWER: At least 3 environmental impacts of

agriculture• QUESTION: What are 3 of the following?

– Soil erosion– Desertification– Salt buildup– Waterlogging– Water deficits and droughts– Loss of biodiversity– Chemical pollution

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B-300

• ANSWER: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

• QUESTION: What is a pest management program that combines chemical, biological and physical pest control strategies?

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B-400

• ANSWER: At least 3 land use practices that lead to desertification

• QUESTION: What are 3 of the following:– Overgrazing, deforestation, soil compaction,

deforestation and other removal of plants that anchor soil

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B-500

• ANSWER: 2 factors that contribute to the rise in world hunger

• QUESTION: What are 2 of the following?– Unequal distribution of food supplies– Increasing human population growth– Increasing poverty, esp. in developing

countries

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C-100

• ANSWER: The greatest use of water in the western U.S. and the greatest water problem in the western U.S.

• QUESTION: What are irrigation and not enough water?

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C-200

• ANSWER: These chemicals often cause eutrophication, and the reason fish die from it.

• QUESTION: What are nitrogen and phosphorus (inorganic fertilizers), and suffocation due to lack of oxygen?

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C-300

• ANSWER: The purpose of the California Water Project and the name of the device used

• QUESTION: What is the transfer of water from northern to southern California, and the California aqueduct?

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C-400

• ANSWER: The 3 major sewage treatment types.

• QUESTION: What are primary (physical) and secondary (biological) treatment, and bleaching/disinfection (usually with chlorine)?

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C-500

• ANSWER: 4 factors the effects of an oil spill would depend upon

• QUESTION: What are 4 of the following?– Amount of oil spilled

– Time of year

– Type of oil (crude vs. refined)

– Distance from shore

– (others are possible)

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D-100

• ANSWER: Erosion vs. weathering

• QUESTION: What is the process in which sediments are loosened and worn away, as opposed to the (physical, chemical, biological) processes in which they are broken down into smaller particles?

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D-200

• ANSWER: At least 3 characteristics of all minerals

• QUESTION: What do any 3 of the following represent?– Naturally occurring

– Inorganic

– Solid

– Having a specific chemical composition

– Having a particular crystal structure

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D-300

• ANSWER: An environmental problem that occurs uniquely with surface-mined gold.

• QUESTION: What is cyanide contamination?

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D-400

• ANSWER: 3 tectonic plate boundaries and their types of movements

• QUESTION: What do the following represent?– Convergent: 2 edges of land move toward each

other, often 1 is subducted below the other

– Divergent: 2 edges of land move away from each other, may create a ridge

– Transform: 2 edges of land slide past each other

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D-500

• ANSWER: A description of the 3 major rock types and how each is formed

• QUESTION: What does the following indicate?– Igneous: cooled magma

– Sedimentary: compacted and layered sediments, may contain fossils

– Metamorphic: rocks changed from a prior form by heat and pressure

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E-100

• ANSWER: The type of waste that is the fastest growing and also contains hazardous components

• QUESTION: What is electronic waste (e-waste)?

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E-200

• ANSWER: The most used solid waste disposal method in the U.S. and the type of waste that makes the largest portion of solid waste.

• QUESTION: What are landfills and paper?

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E-300

• ANSWER: The most desirable strategy to minimize the total volume of hazardous waste

• QUESTION: What is substituting safer products that do not produce hazardous waste?

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E-400

• ANSWER: 3 types of toxic/hazardous substances found in hazardous waste

• QUESTION: What are 3 of:– PVC– Cadmium– Lead– Mercury

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E-500

• ANSWER: 4 problems with landfills• QUESTION: What do any 4 of the following

represent?– Air pollution from toxic gases and VOCs– Release of greenhouse gases– Groundwater contamination– Waste decomposition is relatively slow– Discourages recycling and waste reduction– Takes up land space– Produce odors, attract flies

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F-100

• ANSWER: It supplies the most commercial energy globally today

• QUESTION: What is oil?

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F-200

• ANSWER: Net energy

• QUESTION: What is the total useful energy from an energy resource, less the amount of energy used and wasted in producing it?

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F-300

• ANSWER: 4 problems with mining and burning coal

• QUESTION: What are 4 of:– Subsidence– CO2 and SO2 emissions– Heavy metal (Hg) emissions– Particulates emissions– Environmental scarring– Noise pollution (from trains transporting)

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F-400

• ANSWER: The 6 types of renewable energy resources

• QUESTION: What are – Solar

– Flowing water

– Wind

– Biomass

– Geothermal

– Hydrogen

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F-500

• ANSWER: What OPEC is and 6 of its member nations

• QUESTION: What is an oil cartel and 6 of:– Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Nigeria– Libya, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela– Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Qatar,

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G-100

• ANSWER: The largest water pollutant by total mass

• QUESTION: What is sediment?

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G-200

• ANSWER: Brownfields

• QUESTION: What is building parks on abandoned industrial sites?

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G-300

• ANSWER: Devices that convert solar energy into electricity

• QUESTION: What are photovoltaic cells?

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G-400

• ANSWER: The contaminant type that sewage treatment does NOT treat

• QUESTION: What are pharmaceuticals?

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G-500

• ANSWER: The 4 big energy-wasting devices

• QUESTION: What are– Incandescent light bulbs– Nuclear power plants– Internal combustion engines– Coal-burning power plants

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FINAL JEOPARDY

• ANSWER: Specific examples of the Tragedy of the Commons, the Precautionary Principle and one of the Laws of Thermodynamics applied to 2nd semester concepts

• Be the first team to impress Mrs. Kellogg with a respectable question (since there are many possibilities)!