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What is water distillation?

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A seperation technique which involves a solution (salt water) being heated so that the solvent evaporates before being cooled to form a pure liquid (water).

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What is desalination?

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The process by which salt is removed from seawater in order to make drinking water

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What are the 2 main methods of desalination?

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Reverse osmosis and distillation

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What is another word for distillation?

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Thermal desalination

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Why is desalination most commonly used in the Middle East?

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  • many of the countries are quite wealthy
  • rainfall is low
  • many of the countries have coastlines
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What is reverse osmosis?

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Reverse Osmosis is a method that is used to remove a large quantity of contaminants from water by pushing the water under pressure through a semi-permeable membrane.

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Advantages of thermal desalination

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  • improves water quality
  • kills harmful microbes in the water
  • removes all impurities
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Disadvantages of distillation

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  • heating uses a lot of energy
  • energy may come from non-renewable sources
  • expensive
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Advantages of reverse osmosis

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  • no heating involved
  • less energy required
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Disadvantages of reverse osmosis

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  • need to pressurise water
  • corrosion of pumps due to salty water
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What are the 4 steps involved in treating waste water?

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Screening, Primary Treatment, Secondary Treatment, Final Treatment

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What is screening?

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The waste water is passed through a metal grid which removes large objects such as branches

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What is primary treatment?

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Solids are allowed to settle out from the mixture, where large paddles push it to the centre to be piped off for further treatment

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What happens during primary treatment?

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Solids are allowed to settle out from the mixture, where large paddles push it to the centre to be piped off for further treatment

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What happens during secondary treatment?

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Bacteria are released in the liquid where they aerobically break down harmful micro-organisms and any other organic material. Air is bubbled through the liquid.

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What happens during final treatment?

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The bacteria are allowed to settle and are recycled or disposed with the solids

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In waste water treatment, what happens to the solids (sludge)?

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It is anaerobically digested by bacteria and then used as fertiliser/fuel or sent to landfill

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What are the 2 main methods used to obtain copper from its ore?

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  • Smelting
  • Sulfuric acid used to produce coper sulfate before extracting copper metal
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What process is used to purify the impure copper extracted by smelting?

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Electrolysis

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How can copper be extracted from copper sulfate solution?

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By adding iron which will displace copper from the solution

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What is malachite?

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A type of copper ore

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What method is used 80% of the time to extract copper from malachite?

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Smelting

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Why is smelting bad?

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Requires a lot of energy and emits Co2 and So4

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What is phytomining?

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Where plants are grown on low-grade copper ore which absorb copper ions. They are burnt; and the ash is reacted with sulphuric acid to form a leachate of copper sulphate, from which copper is obtained by displacement or electrolysis

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What is bioleaching?

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Where bacteria feed on low grade copper ore and produce a solution of copper ions called the leachate. Copper can be obtained from this by displacement or electrolysis

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Why can copper be ocassionally found native?

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Copper is an unreactive metal – it reacts only slowly with the atmosphere.

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Why are methods like phytomining becoming increasingly popular?

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It is potentially the least harmful method because it uses naturally occurring organisms and preserves the environment in a more natural state.

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What is a life cycle assessment?

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A method to analyse the environmental impact and the water and energy usage of a product over its lifetime

29
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What are the 5 stages in an LCA?

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RAW MATERIAL - manufacturing - USE/REUSE - maintenance - recycle

30
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Why is recycling aluminium important?

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It saves 95% of energy compared to producing it

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Why might LCA’s be totally objective?

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Assigning the numerical values of environmental aspects is subjective as it requires judgements such as the effect of pollutants.

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Why are LCA’s carried out on new products?

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LCA is carried out on new products to assess the environmental impact of the products, process or services and if it is sustainable.

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What do LCA’s not take into account when comparing products?

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Differences in cost or performance

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What is the aim of “reduce, reuse and recycle” campaigns?

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  • to reduce our use of energy
  • to limit the waste we produce
  • to limit the use of finite resources
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Why is recycling copper more difficult than other metals?

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It is usually an alloy and therefore purification is required

36
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Why is recycling iron + steel important?

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Because no fossil fuels need to be burned and 50% less energy is used compared to production.

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What consumes most of the energy in the production of steel from iron ore?

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Burning fossil fuels such as natural gas to heat the air entering a blast furnace

38
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What do we call products that don’t affect the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration?

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Carbon-neutral

39
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What toxic gas is produced when sulfur is burned?

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Sulfur dioxide

40
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Which source of potable water is the most expensive to treat?

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Sea/salt water

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Which source of potable water is the easiest to treat?

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Fresh water

42
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3 sources that potable water can be obtained from

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  • fresh water
  • seawater
  • waste water
43
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Main sources of waste water

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  • Domestic
  • Industrial
  • Agriculture
44
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Which product of sewage sedimentation is anaerobically digested by bacteria?

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sludge

45
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If materials are not reused or recycled, where do they accumulate?

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If materials are not reused or recycled, where do they accumulate?

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What are the steps involved in recycling glass?

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  • sort
  • crush
  • melt
  • reshape
47
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What stages are involved in the processing of glass for it to be converted into other glass products?

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  1. the colour is sorted by colour and chemical
  2. glass crushed in small pieces
  3. glass melted
  4. reshaped in new product
48
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Disadvatanges of bioleaching

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  • Slow
49
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Why are copper-rich ores in short supply?

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Due to historical overexploitation

50
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What sources can copper be extracted from?

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  • copper rich ores
  • low grade ores
  • contaminated land
51
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What do we call LCAs that choose to ignore certain environmental impacts of a product?

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Selective LCA

52
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Give an example of a factor that is not used to sort glass products for recycling?

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Size

53
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Suggest why fluorine is added to drinking water

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  • Improves dental health
  • Prevents tooth decay
54
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Why can’t we release our waste water directly into the environment?

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Waste water can contain toxic chemicals, harmful microorganisms and other organic matter. All these things can cause pollutionand affect plants and animals, including humans.

55
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What % of the Earth’s water is freshwater?

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3%

56
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What name is given to resources which may run out one day if not managed carefully?

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Finite resources

57
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Examples of finite resources

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  • Metals
  • Plastics
  • Coal
58
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What is a finite resource?

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Finite resources are those that are being used up at a faster rate than they can be replaecd

59
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What is sustainable development?

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Development that meets the needs of current generations without comprimising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

60
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What is an alternative synthetic product to wool?

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Acrylic fibre / polypropene

61
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What is an alternative synthetic product to silk?

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nylon

62
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What is an alternative synthetic product to wood?

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PVC, MDF

63
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What is an alternative synthetic product to cotton?

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Polyester

64
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What is order of magnitude?

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An order of magnitude is a division or multiplication by 10

65
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Why should estimations calculated be expressed as order of magnitudes?

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  • There are uncertainties involved in the calculations
  • Predictions do not take into account recycling of resources
66
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What is potable water?

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Water is not necessarily pure, but safe to drink

67
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What 3 sterlising agents are used to clean water?

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  • UV light
  • Ozone (O3)
  • Chlorine

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