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These are what minerals are used to make
What are: coins, jewelry, building, computer chips, lasers, household products, paint, and dyes?
This is one factor that determines the type of coal that forms from buried plant material
What is heat OR pressure?
Reusing a Target sack to pick up your dog doo is helping to save natural resources through this practice
What is conservation?
This is one factor that determines the type of coal that forms from buried plant material
What is heat OR pressure?
These are examples of renewable resources:
What are: sunlight, wind, water, trees and plants, animal waste?
Nuclear fission is
What is when the nucleus of a radioactive atom is split, forming lighter elements and releasing a huge amount of energy?
To reuse means
What is to use an object more than once to decrease the need to make more products?
Give a renewable resource and state:
1) How energy is obtained?
2) Advantage?
3) Disadvantage?
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Refer to the circle graph on page 326 of your textbook. This source is the most used energy source in the US.
What is oil?
Give a renewable resource and state:
1) How energy is obtained?
2) Advantage?
3) Disadvantage?
Answers will vary
This is what reduce means
What is to use less of a product in order to decrease waste at its source?
These are the tasks involved with recycling:
What are collecting, sorting, and remaking material?
This is what is so dangerous about nuclear power plants
What is a huge amount of energy is released?
This is a reason why windmills aren't the solution to all of our wind energy problems
What is there is a limit to how much power a windmill can produce?
Windy conditions are found in few places.
Wind farms take up a lot of land.
This is an example of reusing an item
What is reusing plastic sacks/sandwich bags, etc.
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Beside using our natural resources, what other benefit comes from being smart about conservation and recycling?
What is reducing the amount of space we fill with landfills?
These are examples of nonrenewable resources
What are: coal, oil, natural gas, uranium, and minerals/rocks
Refer to the circle graph on page 333. Excluding yard trimmings and food, this is the total amount of waste in our trash
This is an example of how I can reduce my use of an item
What is I can buy a large box of Cheese-its instead of 3 small boxes?
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This is a disadvantage of nuclear power
What is it produces dangerous waste products.
What is their sources exist almost in an unlimited supply (assuming we are using them responsibly)?
What is 4%?
This would be the amount of waste that could be reduced IF:
40% of our trash is paper. If we recycled 1/4 of that amount, how much paper would be reduced in the trash?
What is 10%?
This is why fossil fuels are used to run most power plants
What is they are easily burned and produce a lot of heat?
This is a disadvantage of using hydrogen fuel cells to power automobiles
What is they are too expensive?