Chapter 10 Vocab
Waste
Chapter 19 Vocab
Rural, Urban, Suburban
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100
Refers to the vegetation and manufactured structures that cover land
What is land cover?
100
Give an example of municipal solid waste
What is paper, yard trimmings, food straps, plastic, metals, rubber, leather, wood, and class?
100
Is any unwanted material or substances that results from human activity or process.
What is waste?
100
Miami, Florida is considered a....
What is urban area?
100
For the first time in history, there are now more urban residents than rural residents.
TRUE OR FALSE
What is true?
200
The shift of population from the countryside to urban areas
What is urbanization?
200
The three main categories of waste
What is municipal, industrial, and hazardous?
200
Is the collection of materials that can be broken down and reprocessed to make new items.
What is recycling?
200
An _____ is mostly developed land covered mainly with buildings and roads that has a human population of 2500 or more.
What is urban area?
200
The three R's...
What is reduce, reuse, and recycle?
300
An area in which the temperature is several degrees higher than that of the surrounding area.
What is heat island?
300
Hazardous waste mean...
What is refers to solid or liquid waste that is toxic, corrosive, chemically reactive, and flammable?
300
Material/Substances that are able to decompose or break down naturally.
What is biodegradable?
300
The image is an example of.....
What is a rural area?
300
Places where collected recyclables are sorted and prepared for reprocessing.
What is Material Recovery Facilities?
400
The practice of classifying areas for different types of development and land use.
What is zoning?
400
Waste that comes from the production of consumer goods, mining, agriculture, and petroleum extraction and refining.
What is industrial waste?
400
Electronic equipment and appliances that are no longer being used
What is E-waste?
400
Many people that live near Brian don't drive cars because the streets are too busy. Brian drives a bus that hundreds of people use to travel quickly across the city. Brian lives and works in a _______ community.
What is urban?
400
The two primary causes of sprawl are
What is population growth and land consumption?
500
The spread of low-density urban or suburban development outward from an urban center.
What is sprawl?
500
The two legislations that should be followed for storing waste properly
What is sanitary landfills and incineration?
500
A controlled process in which mixed garbage is burned at very high temperatures.
What is incineration?
500
Lower density areas that separate residential and commercial areas from one another
What is suburban?
500
The two primary methods of waste recovery are ...
What is recycling and composting?