Metals, Cells and Sustainability

Question 1

What is Sustainability?

Answer 1

Sustainability is the use of a resource that does not run out

Question 2

What is sustainable development?

Answer 2

sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Question 3

What are the tree pillars of Sustainability?

What do these pillars mean?

Answer 3

The social pillar - involves social sustainability in the areas of international and national laws.
The environmental pillar - includes the area of environmental protection.
The economic pillar - the economic pillar involves planning economic development.

Question 4

What is a fuel?

Answer 4

Is any substance that burns in oxygen to produce heat

Question 5

What are fossil fuels?

Answer 5

are fuels that were formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago

Question 6

What are Hydrocarbons?

Answer 6

are compounds consisting of hydrogen and carbon only

Question 7

Explain the greenhouse effect

Answer 7

The natural trapping of the suns energy by the atmosphere i

Question 8

• Explain the enhanced greenhouse effect

- And what is the extra warming called?

Answer 8

• Increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide are leading the Earth getting even hotter
• global warming

Question 9

What is a biofuel?

Answer 9

is a renewable fuel that can be used as a replacement for non-renewable fossil fuels and is greenhouse neutural

Question 10

What is Pollution?

Answer 10

Pollution is the addition of harmful substances to the environment in quantities greater than can be dealt with efficiently by the environment itself