Waste and Recycling
This type of waste breaks down naturally over time.
What is Biodegradable waste?
This type of pollution can create hazy atmospheric conditions and is common in big cities
What is smog?
Cutting down trees, faster than they can grow back is called this
What is unsustainable harvesting?
Energy That comes from sources that naturally replenish is defined as this
What is renewable energy?
Natural material materials we use such as minerals, water, and soil are what?
What are natural resources?
The process of turning old materials into new products
What is recycling?
Pollution that comes from many different sources like runoff is called this
What is nonpoint source pollution?
This logging method removes all trees in an area at once
What is clear cutting?
This fossil fuel is the cleanest burning and produces the most methane
What is natural gas?
This is the process of soil being worn away by wind or water
What is erosion?
The largest part of US municipal solid waste comes from this material category
What are paper and cardboard?
This is the process for nutrients cause algae blooms, and low oxygen levels in water
What is eutrophication?
Forest that have never been logged and have a surplus of old and mature trees are classified as what
What are old growth forests?
Solar panels convert this type of energy into electricity
What is nuclear energy (Sun)?
This law requires mining companies to restore land after mining operations
What is the surface mining control and reclamation act (SMCRA)?
This law requires the EPA to track hazardous waste from “cradle to grave“
What is the resource conservation and recovery act?
These chemicals were banned because they damaged the ozone layer
What are CFC’s (Chlorofluorocarbon)
This management strategy harvest only certain trees in order to reduce environmental damage
What is selective harvesting?
This energy source uses heat from inside The Earth
What is geothermal energy?
This is the term for the concentration of minerals that is profitable to mine
What is an ore deposit?
This waste management method reduces volume the most, but releases toxic air pollutants
What is incineration?
This is the term for when chemicals build up in organisms overtime and increase as they rise in the future chain
What is biomagnification?
This is the term for managing resources so they meet current needs without covering future generations
What is sustainable resource management?
This is the term for the percentage of energy that becomes useful work in a system
What is energy efficiency?
Limited resources must be properly harvested in order to maintain proper quantities for the common good of society. This sentence describes what term in the field of resource management.
What is the tragedy of the commons?