chapters 11, 17, 18 & 19
Chapter 11 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 risk
exposure
harm
hazard
dosage
epidemiology
bioaccumulation
biomagnification
LD50
smog
acid deposition
suspended_particulate
ozone
troposphere
stratosphere
climate change
greenhouse gas
greenhouse effect
GCM
consensus_science
carbon tax
ozone holepoint_source_pollution
nonpoint_source
oxygen demand
DO
eutrophication
What is the precautionary approach as it applies to pollution?
Describe the processes of risk assessment and risk management.
How do we analyze risks?
Why do people over or underestimate some risks? How does this effect policies to control these risks.
Describe the general conditions that lead to photochemical smog produced by automobiles.
What are the main causes and some of the impacts of acid deposition?
Describe the brown haze that occurs in Southeast Asia. What are some of the effects on people?
Explain how the Clean Air Act of 1970 resulted in more benefits than costs.
Give an example of the difference between prevention vs. dispersion or cleanup (see Figure 17-22, 24, and 25 for examples).
Differentiate between stratospheric ozone and photochemical ozone in the troposphere.
Explain why a warmer global climate could mean more extreme weather also.
Describe how "consensus science" differs from the classical scientific method.
What are possible effects of global warming, both good and bad?
What solutions or preventive actions have been suggested for global warming?
Describe how cultural eutrophication leads to lake water degradation.
Describe the effect of dumping organic wastes into a river (Figure 19-3).
What are some technologies for treating sewage that look promising?
Why is groundwater pollution such a serious threat?