Across
- 4. paid for with public funds and responsible companies, aka Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
- 7. an international agreement to band the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's)
- 8. gives the EPA authority over hazardous waste, aka Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- 10. a waste classification that has one or more of the following;high toxicity to humans, corrosive, and reactive to other chemicals
- 14. primarily methane (CH4), released by decomposition
- 15. water dissolving contaminants, then entering soil
- 16. a reaction between a fuel source and oxygen that releases energy
- 18. during a chemical reaction, this participates and change as the result of the chemical reaction
- 19. the burning of municipal solid waste
- 20. the federal act created in 1970 to improve air quality and health
- 22. a deadly color-less and odor-less gas, vehicle exhaust
- 23. waste is non-degradable
- 24. colorless gas smelling like "rotten eggs"
Down
- 1. harmful compounds found in aerosol cans and refrigerants
- 2. reddish-brown color,used in synthetic fertilizer, also in car exhaust
- 3. when using a liquid spray to wash unwanted pollutants from a gas stream
- 5. waste can be broken down by decomposers
- 6. the draining of water from land towards a body of water
- 9. taking discarded material into new products,decreasing need of landfills
- 11. the result when rain or snow contains a lower pH due to sulfuric and nitric acid
- 12. a heavy metal element, banned in fuel
- 13. the area in the stratosphere that blocks out harmful ultra violet rays from our sun
- 17. the compounds or elements that are formed as a result of the chemical reaction
- 21. the phenomenon where a pocket of cool air is trapped below a layer of warmer air,pollutants are trapped until wind breaks it up