1. Please answer in DETAIL the following questions regarding Climate Change, The Greenhouse effect and Greenhouse Gases

1) What is the Greenhouse Effect? Is it good or bad? Explain.

2) What are Fluorocarbons? What % of Green House gases emitted are they? What human activities cause them? How can we cut back?

3) What is Nitrous Oxide? What % of Green House gases emitted is it? What human activities cause it? How can we cut back?

4) What is Methane? What % of Greenhouse gases emitted is it? What human activities cause it? How can we cut back?

5) What is Carbon Dioxide? What % of Green House gases emitted is it? What human activities cause it? How can we cut back?

6)What affects do Greenhouse gases have on: Biodiversity, specieshabitat, human health, the economy and society? Give some examples.

2. Choose and Research any TWO Environmental Laws below. Provide DETAILED answers to the Questions Below:

Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act

Pollution Prevention Act

Atomic Energy Act

National Park Service Organic Act

Nuclear Waste Disposal Act

Safe Water Drinking Act

Toxic Substances Control Act

Energy Policy Act

Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972

AB 32- California Global Climate Solutions Act of 2006

Answer the following Questions for the TWO laws you chose:

1) Describe the Bill or Law? In detail, what is it intended to do?

2) Which President/ Governor signed it into law?

3) What incident or situation caused it to become a law- Be Specific!

4) In your opinion, what impact is the law having?

5) Do you feel it has been successful? -Why or why not?

6) In your opinion, what could be done to make it better?

7)Is this Law or bill enacted in other countries?If so, where? Don’t justGoogle the exact name of the law you chose- do some digging. HINT:Google something like “Atomic Energy Laws enacted around the world”