Vocab
Using the Earth's Resources
Making Our Electronics
Consumers
E-waste
100
A resource made by humans.
What is man-made?
100
When we dig into the Earth and remove metals.
What is mining?
100
This is the place where we build our electronics and goods.
What is factories?
100
When electronics are shipped all over the world to get to stores.
What is distribution?
100
When we do not recycle our electronics they end up in____________.
What is landfills?
200
A resource that comes from the Earth.
What is natural?
200
When we use explosives to blow up mountains and remove coal.
What is mountaintop removal?
200
When we make something.
What is production?
200
Name 3 ways we ship our products.
What is trucks, ships, planes, and trains.
200
What are some health hazards when you burn or take apart electronics?
What is mental and physical growth, respiratory and reproductive system?
300
Electronics that are thrown away instead of recycled.
What is E-Waste?
300
To take oil out of the ground or ocean floor.
What is drilling?
300
When smoke and chemicals are released from factories it causes____________.
What is air pollution?
300
Using ships to deliver oil is dangerous because___________.
What is oil spills?
300
Name 3 ways E-Waste is dangerous to the environment.
What is water pollution, air pollution, gets into our crops.
400
When factory workers build a product together.
What is an assembly line?
400
When animals lose their homes and space.
What is habitat destruction?
400
Being a factory worker in another country is not easy. What are some problems these workers face?
What is long hours, little pay, and no leisure time.
400
When we buy something and use it. That is called___________.
What is consumption?
400
We often ship our e-waste to other countries to take apart and burn. What two countries did you learn about?
What is Ghana and China?
500
Resources from the Earth that we burn for electricity and heat.
What is fossil fuels?
500
When we remove resources from the Earth to make electronics.
What is extraction?
500
Breathing in too much pollution can cause these diseases.
What is asthma, cancer, and stroke.
500
Americans spend how many hours a day looking at a screen.
What is 11 hours?
500
Name one solution to reduce e-waste.
What is recycle or repurpose our electronics.
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