Mining
Mining carried out underground.
What is subsurface mining?
The two build types of wind turbines.
What is horizontal and vertical?
Food scraps like apple peels, egg shells, and stale bread can all be disposed of using this method.
What is compost?
A common disease coal miners would have after spending years breathing in coal dust.
What is lung cancer?
The term used to describe the process to extract metal from raw ore is what?
What is smelting?
This form of non-renewable energy produces the most air pollution of any energy source.
What is coal?
Paper and cardboard can be categorized as what two types of waste?
What is biodegradable and recyclable? (will also accept compostable)
The radioactive dust that falls from the clouds after an atom bomb has been dropped.
What is nuclear fallout?
The two properties that make metals valuable.
What is conductivity and durability? (will also accept malleability)
Energy that is captured from the heat from the mantle of the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
Hazardous waste such as radioactive waste, paint, oil, or bleach can all be described as sharing what defining characteristic?
What is toxic/harmful to living things for long periods of time?
Copper mines in Alaska are currently threatening this type of migratory fish.
What is salmon?
The process that mines should carry out AFTER they have finished extracting the minerals.
What is reclamation?
The energy stored in fossils fuels originally came from this source.
What is the sun?
Leachate is when water mixes with the solid waste in landfills to create a toxic solution. These are three safeguards containing the leachate from escaping.
What is a plastic lining, compacted clay, and collection pipes?
A way to warn future generations about buried hazardous waste by genetically engineering cats to glow.
What is the ray cat solution?
For every 10 meters of rock that is mined, how many meters of that is actually coal?
What is 1?
Unlocking the process of nuclear fusion would provide the world with what?
What is unlimited clean energy?
These are the layers of protective lining beneath a landfill.
What is compacted clay, plastic liner, and gravel?
A type of energy that emits a blue glow, seen at the Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown.
What is Cherenkov radiation?