Environmental Science Trivia

Environmental Science Trivia

• Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship among human beings to the value and moral status of the environment.
• The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that has almost no water vapor and has nearly 1,000 times more ozone is the stratosphere.
• The most popular teratogen is alcohol.
• The Philippine law that aims to protect the country's water bodies from pollution from land-based sources is the Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004.
• The upper part of the stratosphere is warmer because it absorbs all the ultraviolet solar radiation.
• The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is a region of highly ionized gases, heated by a steady flow of high energy solar and cosmic radiation is the thermosphere.
• The animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period are collectively called fauna.
• The long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place is climate change.
• Endemic species are those that are restricted to one place and do not occur naturally in any other part of the world.
• The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is the coldest part of the Earth's atmosphere, with temperatures below 100 degrees Celsius, is the mesosphere.
• The Philippine law that ensures proper segregation, collection, storage, treatment, and disposal of solid waste through the formulation and adaptation of the best eco-waste products is the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.
• The chemicals that mess up the natural activity of hormones are endocrine disruptors.

Environmental Science Trivia

• Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship among human beings to the value and moral status of the environment.
• The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that has almost no water vapor and has nearly 1,000 times more ozone is the stratosphere.
• The most popular teratogen is alcohol.
• The Philippine law that aims to protect the country's water bodies from pollution from land-based sources is the Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004.
• The upper part of the stratosphere is warmer because it absorbs all the ultraviolet solar radiation.
• The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is a region of highly ionized gases, heated by a steady flow of high energy solar and cosmic radiation is the thermosphere.
• The animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period are collectively called fauna.
• The long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place is climate change.
• Endemic species are those that are restricted to one place and do not occur naturally in any other part of the world.
• The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is the coldest part of the Earth's atmosphere, with temperatures below 100 degrees Celsius, is the mesosphere.
• The Philippine law that ensures proper segregation, collection, storage, treatment, and disposal of solid waste through the formulation and adaptation of the best eco-waste products is the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.
• The chemicals that mess up the natural activity of hormones are endocrine disruptors.