C10- Using Resources Flashcards

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Natural resources

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Come from eart, sea and air and form eithout human input

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Renwable resoucre

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Form at similar rate to what they are used

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Finite (non-renewable resources)

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Arent formed quickly enough to be considered replaceable

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4
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How to help sustainability

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Recylcing metals as metals take lots of energy to extract and glass

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5
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Life cycle of products life

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Getting raw materials, manufscutre and psckaging, snd using the product

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Problems with life cycle assessments

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Can be bissed, used for positive sdvetising by inly showing some impacts of s products, hard to give effects of pollutsnt numerical value

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7
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Ways to produced potable water

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Filtration, sterilisations

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Test and purify a sample of water using distillation

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  1. Test pH of water if too high or low neutralise it by added acid or alkali
  2. As water in flask heats up it will evaporaye entrr the condenser as steam
  3. Drop of temperature inside condenser will cause steam to condense into liquid water
  4. Collect water in besker and retest pH to check if neutral
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9
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Sewage tretment stages

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  1. Sewage screened and large bitd of material removed
  2. Undergoes sedimentsrion
  3. Effluent in tank is removed by biological aerobic digestion
  4. Sludge from bottom removed into large tank and broken down by bacteria in anaerobic digestion
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