Chapter 13
This style of light bulb is the most energy efficient
LED
Wind, solar, and hydro all represent this type of energy
Renewable
The spread of a disease over a larger geographical area is called this
Pandemic
This material is resistant to breakdown, resulting in it persisting in the environment for tens to hundreds of years
Plastic
This refers to the increasing number of people living in urban areas
Urbanization
Transportation
This is the total mass of living things in a specific area
Biomass
In the 1980s, scientists discovered an alarming concentration of this element inside fish
Mercury
More than half of the municipal solid waste in the US ends up here
Landfills
Most of the world's largest urban areas located very near to this resource
Water
This government agency is responsible for the creation of policies such as fracking operators being required to capture emissions from their wells
The Environmental Protection Agency
This is the functional unit of a solar panel
A contagious disease can also be called this
Communicable
This represents the largest component of municipal solid waste in land fills
Food waste
Cities with a population exceeding 10 million are know as this
Megacities
This molecule is the most abundant one in natural gas
Methane
The first off-shore wind farm in the US was built in this year
2017
An agent that can alter a cell's DNA is called this
Mutagen
These sorts of communities suffer disproportionality from pollution compared to others
Impoverished/Marginalized
This area is the largest urbanized area in the world
Pearl River Delta
This is the estimated figure for cleanup costs resulting from the Deepwater Horizon incident
$15 Billion
This structure, created alongside dams, allows aquatic life to still be able to pass through this otherwise blocked off area
This is the last step in the risk assessment process
Risk assessment
Since 1960, the US has increased its generation of plastic waste by this percent
10,000%
Approximately this percent of the world population lives in urban areas
55%