Human Impacts on the Environment

Question 1

Hydrosphere

Answer 1

All entities of water on the planet

Question 2

Lithosphere

Answer 2

The mantle and crust of the Earth

Question 3

Atmosphere

Answer 3

Includes gaseous particles in the air

Question 4

Marine Mammal Protection Act

Answer 4

Enacted in 1972; uses NOAA and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to protect marine mammals from further decline

Question 5

Magnuson-Stevens Act

Answer 5

Enacted in 1976; the governance of marine fisheries management in the US to reduce overfishing and repopulate habitats that have already experience overfishing

Question 6

Bottom trawling

Answer 6

A fishing technique that pulls a net behind a boat

Question 7

Longline fishing

Answer 7

A mainline that possesses numerous smaller hooks using bait as a lure

Question 8

Gillnets

Answer 8

Wide nets stretched across the water that trap fish by their gills

Question 9

Dynamite fishing

Answer 9

The use of explosives to stun or kill fish

Question 10

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Answer 10

Sets a comprehensive legal framework to regulate the space, uses, and resources of the world’s oceans

Question 11

IPAT

Answer 11

Impact
Population
Affluence
Technology

Question 12

Eutrophication

Answer 12

The influx of excess nutrients need for the growth of photosynthesis into bodies of water. The overproduction of algae because of this kills off other aquatic life