ENGR 202- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)

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Study guide: de ne or describe, risk: the probability of a speci c undesired consequence, cfc: chloro uorocarbons, noael threshold: no observable adverse effects level, f. c. Gathering the data is time consuming and expensive. This only gets worse as the lca is more comprehensive. 3: name three things that can affect the carbon cycle! Petroleum contaminants from leaking underground storage tanks (lust)! This promotes excessive plant and algae growth, to the detriment of other forms of aquatic life, leaving a body of water that is unable to support sh or other life forms and is also unsuitable for human uses. The cause is runoff from agricultural elds and the dumping of untreated sewage into bodies of water. (apparently there was a calculation question here. Comment if you know what it could possibly be :p)! Carcinogenic chemicals typically assume a linear relationship with no threshold. Any dose above zero results in some risk.