Toxicity Part 2

Question 1

What is phytoremediation?

Answer 1

The use of green plants to reduce contamination

Question 2

What does EPA stand for and when was it founded?

Answer 2

Environmental protection agency, 1970

Question 3

Which 2 incidents inspired the government to create laws concerning the environment?

Answer 3

Love canal, New York; and times beach, Missouri

Question 4

What does RCRA stand for?

Answer 4

Resource conservation and recovery act

Question 5

What is RCRA’s tag line?

Answer 5

“Cradle to grave”: handling, tracking, and management of toxins

Question 6

What inspired RCRA?

Answer 6

Times beach and love canal

Question 7

What does NPL stand for?

Answer 7

National priority list

Question 8

What does the NPL consist of?

Answer 8

CERCLA and superfund

Question 9

What does teratogenic mean?

Answer 9

It causes fetal abnormalities

Question 10

What does CERCLA stand for?

Answer 10

Comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act

Question 11

What is CERCLA’s tag line?

Answer 11

“Strict, joint, and severe responsibility”

Question 12

What does PRP stand for?

Answer 12

Potentially responsible parties

Question 13

What is the purpose of CERCLA?

Answer 13

Rapid containment and cleanup of abandoned toxic waste sites

Question 14

What percent of money for CERCLA comes from superfund?

Answer 14

70-80%

Question 15

What does SARA stand for?

Answer 15

Superfund amendments and reauthorization act

Question 16

What is SARA’s tag line?

Answer 16

“Community right to know”

Question 17

What does SARA do?

Answer 17

Notifies residents within a 1 mile radius of a superfund site

Question 18

What are the 3 types of teratogens?

Answer 18

Viral, chemical, nutritional

Question 19

What are 5 examples of teratogens?

Answer 19

DES, fetal alcohol syndrome, acne medications, Zika virus, thalidomide

Question 20

What are brownfeilds?

Answer 20

Contaminated commercial property that is underused/ abandoned but can be considered for potential redevelopment

Question 21

What are 3 advantages to brownfeilds?

Answer 21

Brings jobs, tax base, reduces urban sprawl

Question 22

What does CAA stand for?

Answer 22

Clean air act

Question 23

What does the CAA do?

Answer 23

Directs the EPA to protect air and ozone layer, requires emissions permits

Question 24

What is the CWA?

Answer 24

Clean water act

Question 25

What inspired the CWA?

Answer 25

Santa Barbara oil spill (1969) and cuyahoga river

Question 26

What 2 things did the CWA do?

Answer 26

Set water quality standards and required discharge permits

Question 27

What does the national energy security act do?

Answer 27

Increased R and D of ethanol fuel production

Question 28

What inspired the energy tax act?

Answer 28

The 1970 oil embargo

Question 29

What happened in Bhopal India?

Answer 29

MIC has leaked from union carbide (a pesticide company) and killed thousands

Question 30

What are the 3 steps of the union carbide gas leak?

Answer 30

1) water entered tank of 42 tons of MIC 2) exothermic reaction: temp raised to 392 degrees, raising pressure 3) the tank vented, releasing the toxic gas into Bhopal

Question 31

What are 3 things that caused the terrible effect the MIC had?

Answer 31

MIC stores at unsafe levels, safety systems failed or turned off, no catastrophe plan

Question 32

Who is Aldo Leopold?

Answer 32

He wrote "sand country almanac" and emphasized interdependence of living things and abiotic factors

Question 33

Who is Rachel Carson?

Answer 33

She wrote "silent spring" which discussed the effects of pesticides on the environment and helped lead to the DDT ban

Question 34

Who is Gifford Pinchot?

Answer 34

He said "the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time" and was the first head of the US forest service

Question 35

Who is Steven Mather?

Answer 35

He was the first director of the national park service

Question 36

Who is Garrett Hardin?

Answer 36

He wrote "tragedy of the commons" and thought that commonly owned resources are doomed to destruction bc humans are greedy

Question 37

What did Teddy Roosevelt do?

Answer 37

He set aside millions of acres for national forests and wildlife refuges

Question 38

Who is john Muir?

Answer 38

He founded sierra club, established Yosemite national park, and was a transcendentalist

Question 39

Who is Henry David Thoreau?

Answer 39

He wrote "Walden" and "civil disobedience" and was a transcendentalist

Question 40

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

Answer 40

He was a transcendentalist and believed that people are naturally good

Question 41

Who is wangari maathai?

Answer 41

She began the green belt movement

Question 42

What 4 things has the green belt movement done?

Answer 42

Slowed soil erosion, improved land quality, provided work for 3,000 women, has planted 10 million trees