Mining
Energy
Waste Management
HARD MODE
100

Mining carried out underground.

What is subsurface mining?

100

The two types of wind turbines.

What is horizontal and vertical?

100

Food scraps like apple peels, egg shells, and stale bread can all be disposed of using this method. 

What is compost?

100

A common disease coal miners would have after spending years breathing in coal dust.

What is lung cancer?

200

For every 10 meters of rock that is mined, how many meters of that is actually coal?

What is 1?

200

Energy that is captured from the heat from the mantle of the Earth. 

What is geothermal energy?

200

Paper and cardboard can be categorized as what two types of waste?

What is biodegradable and recyclable? (will also accept compostable)

200

The radioactive dust that falls from the clouds after an atom bomb has been dropped. 

What is nuclear fallout?

300

The term used to describe the process to extract metal from raw ore is what?

What is smelting?

300

The energy stored in fossils fuels originally came from this source.

What is the sun?

300

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?

300

A way to warn future generations about buried hazardous waste by genetically engineering cats to glow. 

What is the ray cat solution?

400

The two properties that metals valuable. 

What is conductivity and durability? (will also accept malleability)

400

Unlocking the process of nuclear fusion would provide the world with what?

What is unlimited clean energy?

400

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?

400

A type of energy that emits a blue glow, seen at the Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown. 

What is Cherenkov radiation?