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APES Review 3
3rd set of Words.
Question | Answer |
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What's Pesticide Cons? | Genetic rsistance, ecosystem imbalance, pesticide treadmill persistence, bioaccumulation, biological magnification. |
What's Natural Pest Control? | Better agricultural pactrices, genetically resistant plants, natural enemies, biopesticides,sex atractants. |
What's Electricity is generated by? | Using steam (from water boiled by fossil fuels or nuclear) or fallig water to turn a generator. |
What's Petroleum Forms From? | Microscopic aquatic organisms in sediments coverted by heat pressure into a mixture of hydrocarbons |
What's Pros of Petroleum? | cheap, easily transported, high quality energy. |
What's Cons of Petroleum? | Reserves depleted soon, pollution during drilling, transport and refining, burning makes CO2 |
What's Steps in Coal Formation? | Peat, lignite, bituminous, anthracite. |
What's Major Parts of Nuclear Reactors? | Core, control rods, steam generator, turbine, containment building |
What's Two Most Nuclear Accidents: | (Chernoyl, Ukraine)(Three Mile Island, PA) |
What's Alternate Energy Sources? | Wind, solar, waves, biomass, geothermal, fuel cells. |
What's LD5O? | The amount of chemical that kills 50% of the animals in a test population. |
What does Mutagen, Teatogen, Carcinogen Causes? | Hereditary canges, Fetus deformites, & cancer. |
What's Mutiple use US public land? | National Forest & National Resource lands. |
What's Moderately retricted use land? | National Wildlife Refuges |
What's Restrcted Use Lands? | National Parks, National Wilderness Preservation System. |
What's Volcanoes and Earthquakes? | Occur at plate boundaries(divergent, spreading, mid-ocean ridges)(convergent, trenches)(transform, sliding, San Andreas) |