Sustainability 1
Sustainability 2
Waste Management
Vocabulary
100
True or False; the aspects of sustainability can overlap.
What is true?
100
Managing costs and providing jobs is this aspect of sustainability.
What is economic?
100
According to the diagram, which waste management strategy is MOST preferred?
What is prevention or reduction?
100
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability to meet future needs.
What is sustainability?
200
Pythons in the Florida everglades are an invasive species and impact native wildlife in this way.
What is negative?
200
Maintaining a standard of living and providing equal opportunities for all is this aspect of sustainability.
What is social?
200
This waste management strategy converts trash to energy.
What is resource recovery or incineration?
200
Large habitats get divided into smaller, isolated habitats from construction and development.
What is habitat fragmentation?
300
An increase in unsustainable land use has been connected with an increase in global temperatures. This is the impact on temperature if more people use land sustainably.
What is a slower increase in global temperatures?
300
Remove subsidies and tax breaks that support clear cutting, deforestation, can have this impact on sustainability.
What is positive; keep companies from cutting down too many trees by taking away the financial incentive?
300
Prevention is listed in the diagram instead of these two words mentioned in class.
What are reduce and reuse?
300
Excessive nutrients from runoff into a body of water which causes dense growth of algae. This then leads to a severe decrease of oxygen in the waterways.
What is eutrophication?
400
A company fishing for as many fish as they want, without leaving enough to reproduce, has these two consequences of sustainability.
What are environmental and economic; overexploitation of natural resource and running out of a resource to have a steady income?
400
Urban farming can have this social consequence.
What is improvement of human health?
400
This is why landfills need to be constantly monitor.
What is to prevent the soil and water from being negatively affected
400
Liquid made from rainfall in landfills that can negatively impact the environment.
What is leachate?