Mining
A mineral containing tantalite and cobalt, used in cell phones
What is coltan?
The agreement that allowed for the reduction of CFC production
What is the Montreal Protocol?
The most dangerous meltdown accident to date took place at this power plant located in Ukraine
What is Chernobyl?
This is the layer of the atmosphere where CC is taking place
What is the troposphere?
This was the location of the USA's first Superfund site
What is the Love Canal, Niagara Falls, NY
Mining method in which material in riverbeds is sifted for deposited resources
What is placer mining?
The pH range of acid deposition
What is less than 5?
When a resource is considered "finite" it is known as ____. Give an example of one of these resources.
Nonrenewable: oil, coal, natural gas or uranium
This is the result of melting ice and expansion of heated water
What is sea level rise?
According to the EPA, 5 of the top 6 most toxic chemicals are used by this industry
What is plastic?
Type of mining used when a mineral resource is spread evenly throughout a rock formation, but the ground is too unstable for tunneling
What is strip mining?
This air pollutant is a metal is primarily released from the combustion of coal.
What is mercury?
This nonrenewable resource is made up of mostly methane.
What is natural gas?
192 countries plus the European Union have joined this agreement, which includes commitments from all countries to reduce their emissions and work together to adapt to the impacts of climate change
What is the Paris Accord?
This is where waste is laid in a large depression lined with plastic and impermeable clay to prevent liquids from leaching out
What is a sanitary landfill?
The extraction of just a few hundredths of an ounce of gold can produce one ton of this waste associated with much of the pollution caused by mining
What are tailings?
Pollutant that bonds with hemoglobin interfering with oxygen transport in the bloodstream
What is CO?
The only direct tailpipe exhaust byproduct of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is this H2O state.
What is water vapor?
These are the major GHG. List 3.
What are: water vapor, CO2, CH4, O3, NOx
Nearly half of US states (including Vermont) ban this kind of waste from municipal trash collection.
What is organic material and yard waste (aka compost)?
Because of the negative impacts of strip mining, this law requires restoration of the land after mining is complete
What is the Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act (1977)?
The dust particles of this widely used insulating material can cause a rare and aggressive cancer called mesothelioma
What is asbestos?
Formed under intense heat and pressure, this highest rank of coal has the highest carbon content and burns the cleanest.
What is anthracite?
What isotope of carbon being found in the atmosphere is associated with fossil fuel burning?
What is C-12?
What is the largest source of unregulated hazardous waste?
What are households?
*The average US home contains ~100 lbs of hazardous waste in sheds, basements and garages, ex: paints, oils, batteries, oils, solvents, cleaning agents, pesticides