Environmental Engineering

Mullerian mimicry

It is a form of biological resemblance in which two or more unrelated noxious or dangerous organisms exhibit closely similar warning systems, such as the same pattern of bright colors

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As stipulated in RA 9003, there must be a provision of gas control system when the volume of waste in SLF has reached ____ million metric tons

Diatomaceous earth

Widely used in water and WW as a filtration aid

Fossilized skeleton

Diatomaceous earth is made of?

Albedo effect

Reflectivity of Earth's surface

Escherichia & Agrobacterium

Bacterias found to be very useful in genetic engineering experiments

Ornithophily

Pollination by birds

Anemophily

Wind pollination

Entomophily

Insect pollination

Autogamy

Self pollination

Mitosis

Cell division

Allogamy

Used to describe the fertilization of an ovum from an individual with the spermatozoa of another

Autogamy

Occurs in hermaphrodite and describes self pollination in flowering plant

Mitosis

Occurs in somatic cells

Meisosis

Occurs in gametes

Pseudomonas

A genetically engineered microorganisms used successfully in bioremediation of oil spills is a species of?

Tropical Rainforest

More than half of Earth's flora and fauna are found

Net primary productivity

Rate of organic storage of organic matter in producers in excess ofbtheir metabolic consumption

Thermosphere

Aurora borealis occurs in which of the ff part of the atmosphere

Benthic zone

An area where the are cold waters, low oxygen levels, and bottom-dwelling fish

Hydrogen cyanide

Better known as deadly poison prussic acid

Natural lead sulfide

Known as galena

Styrofoam cup

Take the longest to degrade in a landfill

Tyndall

Caused by scaterring of light in colloids or suspension

Presbycusis

Hearing loss due to aging cause

Resources

Known deposits of a material that can be extracted profitably

Passive solar

Form of energy that can be successfully used in buildings

Passive solar

Relatively cheap to construct

Passive solar

Simply uses the sun to heat a surface, which warms the inside of a building

About 7%

Nuclear power provides approx ____ of the world's energy

About75%

Percentage of total world production of CO do the developed countries contribute

Toxic substance

Substance that is poisonous to humans or other organisms by interfering with normal body physiology

Threshold level

During a toxicology study, the highest level of exposure at which none of the test animals is affected

Chronic exposure

Exposure to small doses of a particular chemical over long periods of time, like our exposure to lead in paint and gasoline

Combination of groundwater

The most serious environmental effect posed by hazardous wastes

Superfund

The federal program that deals with the cleanup of hazardous waste sites

K, P, N

Three primary soil macronutrients

Early morning

Time of tye day where Fog and stratus clouds are most common

Middle and high clouds

Large scale circulation systems, fronts, nad thunderstorms are primary source of?

Tropopause

High cloud tops generally are limited by the height of the ___

Cirrus

Names of all three high cloud genera contain this word in some form

Orographic lifting

Lenticular and stratiform clouds are caused in stable air by?

Evaporation fog

Composed of unstable clouds

200 micrometers

Minimum diameter for liquid precipitation

3centimeters

Weather radar operating at which wavelengths is able to detect cloud droplets

300miles

Normal useful range for normal ground based weather radar

Nimbostratus

Hail is precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular chunks of ice 5mm or more in diameter

Coriolis force

Deflective force arising from the earth's rotation

Biome

Terrestrial climax communities with wide geographical distribution

Phytoplankton

Microscopic, floating algar that carry on photo synthesis in pelagic ecosystem

Euphotic zone

The upper region of bodies of water where the sun's rays penetrate, thus, phytoplankton are located

Eutrophic lakes

Shallow, warm, nutrient - rich lakes

Stratification

The formation of water layers based on salinity and temperature

PD 1181

Prevention control of air pollution from motor vehicle

150

Limit of EIA report for EPRMP

Autecology

Branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment

Chloroplast

Plastid that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis in plants

Speciation

The production of new species from previously existing species

Amensalism

A relationship in which one population is inhibited by an external factor and the other is not affected

Commensalism

A relationship in which one species benefits while the other is not harmed/affected

Food chain

Passage of energy from one trophic level to the next

Rock

Ultimate source of phosphorus

Histosols

Soils with high organic content, poorly drained

Vertisols

Soils that are high in clay, large "shrink-well" capacity

17000km

Distance of coastline in the phil

Kelp

Commonly called seaweeds

25cm

Desert receives less than ___ of precipitation per year

25cm

Tundra receives less than ___ of precipitation per year

Diversity

The number of species of plants and animals in a given community

Geomorphology

It is the frequency interval between a given frequency and twice that frequency

75pages

What is the estimated limit on the number of pages of IEER

COHb

Carboxyhemoglobin

Risk

Measure of probability of incident

Geomorphology

Deals with erosion and landslides