Hazardous Waste
Waste Management Strategies
Urban Land
Land Management
Mining
100

Solid Waste sources (4)

What are municiple, manufacturinbg, mining, and agriculture

100

The most important reason for waste collection

What is the protection of the environment and the health of the population.

100

An increase in the ratio or density of people living in urban areas rather than in rural areas.

What is Urbanization

100

The 5 main categories of rural land

What are farmland, rangeland, forest land, national or state parks, and wilderness

100

An inorganic solid that has a characteristic chemical composition, an orderly internal structure, and a characteristic set of physical properties.

What is a mineral

200

Collecting materials to be re-used

What is recycling

200

Burning of solid waste materials

What is incineration

200

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

200

The most common human use of rangeland

What is grazing for livestock

200

A common method of subsurface mining

What is room and pillar

300

Waste that can't be broken down by natural processes

What is non-biodegradable

300

Waste is put into the ground then covered each day with a layer of soil and/or plastic.

What is a landfill

300

The basic facilities of a country or region

What is infrastructure

300

The depletion of vegetation due to the continuous feeding

What is overgrazing

300

An economical method to mine for deposits of soluble mineral ores

what is solution mining

400

Taking biodegradable material and allowing it to decompose

what is composting

400

Two problems with landfills

What are leachate and methane

400

Rapid spread of a city into adjoining suburbs and rural areas.

What is urban sprawl

400

The 2 methods of harvesting tree

Clear-cutting and selective cutting

400

In this type of mining ores are mined downward, layer by layer.

What is open pit mining

500

A law that governs hazardous waste

What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act or The Superfund Act

500

A kind of plastic made from organic materials

What is degradable plastic

500

An area in which the air temperature is generally higher than the temperature of surrounding rural areas.

What is a heat island

500

The first national Park

What is Yellowstone

500

The 3 properties if metallic minerals

What are conduct electricity, shiny, and opaque