C10- Using Resources Flashcards
Natural resources
Come from eart, sea and air and form eithout human input
Renwable resoucre
Form at similar rate to what they are used
Finite (non-renewable resources)
Arent formed quickly enough to be considered replaceable
How to help sustainability
Recylcing metals as metals take lots of energy to extract and glass
Life cycle of products life
Getting raw materials, manufscutre and psckaging, snd using the product
Problems with life cycle assessments
Can be bissed, used for positive sdvetising by inly showing some impacts of s products, hard to give effects of pollutsnt numerical value
Ways to produced potable water
Filtration, sterilisations
Test and purify a sample of water using distillation
- Test pH of water if too high or low neutralise it by added acid or alkali
- As water in flask heats up it will evaporaye entrr the condenser as steam
- Drop of temperature inside condenser will cause steam to condense into liquid water
- Collect water in besker and retest pH to check if neutral
Sewage tretment stages
- Sewage screened and large bitd of material removed
- Undergoes sedimentsrion
- Effluent in tank is removed by biological aerobic digestion
- Sludge from bottom removed into large tank and broken down by bacteria in anaerobic digestion