Exam 17: Managing Our Waste

A combination of events and situations, including Los Angeles' smog problem, led to Congress passing the _ in 1963. This legislation and its major amendments in 1970 and 1990 fund Research into pollution control, set standards for air quality, and encourage emissions standards for automobiles and point sources such as industrial plants. They also impose limits on emissions from new sources, fund a national air quality monitoring system, and enable citizens to sue parties violating the standards.

You have been hired by a rapidly growing small city to improve the air quality, which has deteriorated in the past 10 years. What would be a logical action to take?

Seasons are a result of .

Temperature increases with altitude through most of the stratosphere because .

In the 1970s, sources of CFC pollution in the U.S. included all of the following EXCEPT .

Which of the following pollutants has the longest residence time?

The Montreal Protocol .

Half of U.S. emissions of this pollutant is from natural sources such as vegetation.

Residence time is the .

In 1970, the source of most of the airborne lead emissions in the U.S. was .

The Coriolis effect .

Stratospheric ozone is important to ecosystems because it .

One consequence of CFC pollution is .

The Earth's atmosphere is composed mostly of .

One key contributing factor to the Los Angeles smog problem is the fact that .

Bacteria and fungal spores are potential .

Near the equator, the patterns of convection currents are called _.

Photochemical smog differs from industrial smog in that it .

In industrialized nations, the two most deadly sources of indoor pollution are .

is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that may cause lung cancer.