Which of the following practices would help achieve source reduction:
a) increased use of plastics
b) more consumption
c) more packaging
d) designing goods that last longer
What is d) designing goods that last longer?
100
The collection of materials that can be broken down and reprocessed to make new items.
What is recycling?
100
The combination of factors that will produce the highest rate of population growth.
What is high life expectancy and low infant mortality?
100
Tigers living in warm climates have thinner coats of fur than tigers living in cool climates is the result of this.
What is genetic diversity?
200
The scraps of wood leftover during the production of household and office furniture would be considered this kind of waste.
What is industrial waste?
200
Substances that can eat through or dissolve metal storage tanks and equipment.
What are corrosive substances?
200
The agency who sets the standards by which states are to manage hazardous waste.
What is The Environmental Protection Agency?
200
The richest 1/5 of the world's people uses this percent of the world's resources.
What is 86%?
200
The easiest component of biodiversity to measure.
What is ecosystem diversity?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
Where most industrial nations now put most of their waste.
What are landfills?
300
The largest source of radiation in the environment.
What is radon?
300
One of the key benefits of incinerating waste.
What is reduces the waste's weight and volume?
300
The average number of children a female member of the population has during her lifetime.
What is total fertility rate?
300
To manage, protect, and reintroduce threatened and endangered species, are the goals of this plan.
What is species survival plan?
400
Substances that can explode or produce toxic fumes when compressed, heated, or mixed with water.
What are reactive substances?
400
Discarded electronic devices are considered hazardous waste because they can do this.
What is leach heavy metals?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Natural gas, gasoline, waste oils from automotive shops and restaurants, oil-based paints, solvents (paint thinners), and alcohol are examples of this type of hazardous waste.
What is ignitable hazardous waste?
400
This happens during the transitional stage of the demographic transition.
What is death rates begin to fall?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Convention on Biological Diversity are examples of these.
What are treaties to protect biodiversity?
500
A number of closed landfills have been converted into these.
What are recreation areas?
500
A potential benefit of capturing and using the gases produced in sanitary landfills.
What is cutting down greenhouse gases?
500
The main purpose for putting hazardous waste into surface impoundments.
What is reducing the volume of liquid hazardous waste?
500
Proper sequence of steps in the demographic transition model?
What is pre-industrial--transitional--industrial--post-industrial?
500
Relieving a nation from repaying some of the money it owes other nations in exchange for protecting its biodiversity.