Hazardous Waste
Solid Waste sources (4)
What are municiple, manufacturinbg, mining, and agriculture
The most important reason for waste collection
What is the protection of the environment and the health of the population.
An increase in the ratio or density of people living in urban areas rather than in rural areas.
What is Urbanization
The 5 main categories of rural land
What are farmland, rangeland, forest land, national or state parks, and wilderness
An inorganic solid that has a characteristic chemical composition, an orderly internal structure, and a characteristic set of physical properties.
What is a mineral
Collecting materials to be re-used
What is recycling
Burning of solid waste materials
What is incineration
A rapidly growing population that can overwhelm the infrastructure, leading to traffic jams, substandard housing, and polluted air and water.
What is the urban Crisis
The most common human use of rangeland
What is grazing for livestock
A common method of subsurface mining
What is room and pillar
Waste that can't be broken down by natural processes
What is non-biodegradable
Waste is put into the ground then covered each day with a layer of soil and/or plastic.
What is a landfill
The basic facilities of a country or region
What is infrastructure
The depletion of vegetation due to the continuous feeding
What is overgrazing
An economical method to mine for deposits of soluble mineral ores
what is solution mining
Taking biodegradable material and allowing it to decompose
what is composting
Two problems with landfills
What are leachate and methane
Rapid spread of a city into adjoining suburbs and rural areas.
What is urban sprawl
The 2 methods of harvesting tree
Clear-cutting and selective cutting
In this type of mining ores are mined downward, layer by layer.
What is open pit mining
A law that governs hazardous waste
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act or The Superfund Act
A kind of plastic made from organic materials
What is degradable plastic
An area in which the air temperature is generally higher than the temperature of surrounding rural areas.
What is a heat island
The first national Park
What is Yellowstone
The 3 properties if metallic minerals
What are conduct electricity, shiny, and opaque