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QUARTER 2 Flashcards

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This is generated and disposed of in great amounts by people all over the world. These end up in landfills and become a source of pollution.

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Solid Waste

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Includes trash or garbage from households, schools, offices, marketplaces, restaurants, and other public places.

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Municipal solid waste

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Produced from health care facilities such as hospitals, clinics, veterinary facilities, and laboratories.

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Medical and clinical wastes

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These are generated by agricultural activities such as plant cultivation, fruit growing, seed growing, livestock breeding, vegetable gardening, and seedling banks.

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Agricultural wastes

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Comes from manufacturing various products like glass, leather, textile, food, electronics, plastic, and metal products that are generated in bulk.

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Industrial wastes

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Results from the construction of roads and buildings. Old houses or buildings are demolished to build new ones.

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Construction and demolition wastes

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From electronic and electrical devices includes DVD and music players, TVs, telephones, computers, vacuum cleaners, and all the other electrical appliances at home.

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Electronic waste

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This is defined as any waste in liquid form such as fluids from wastewater; fats, oils and grease, and any other hazardous household liquids.

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Liquid Waste

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Often referred to as domestic wastewater that results from daily activities such as cooking, washing, bathing, and toilet use.

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Liquid wastes from residential areas

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Generated by processing or manufacturing industries and service industries, such as car repair shops. Also from food product manufacturing companies, dairy waste, and from all cisterns within the industrial facilities.

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Liquid wastes from industries

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Caused by the seepage of rainwater through the deposited material in landfills.

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Landfill leachate

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Oxides or carbon, sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, hydrocarbons, aerosols, carbon monoxide, methane, and greenhouse gases like chlorofluorocarbon.

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Gaseous wastes

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Hazardous gas emitted from landfills. They attract insects and bugs.

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Methane

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Solid wastes pose a significant risk to water and quality and can be a source of toxic contaminants.

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Water Contamination

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When the condition of the landfill worsens and the community becomes intolerant of such condition, the landfill is transferred farther from densely populated areas.

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Energy Consumption

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A land that is claimed for landfill is no longer viable to many plants and wildlife.

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Natural Habitat Degradation

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This is the rapid growth in the population of bacteria and algae in rivers and lakes known as algal bloom.

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Eutrophication damage

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Poses a serious threat to an ecosystem. Waste deposited directly into bodies of water negatively changes the chemical composition of water.

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Surface water contamination

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Can affect the health of most living things. Hazardous chemicals that get into the soil can harm plants when they absorb the contaminants through their roots.

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Soil contamination

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Can be hazardous if it enters the surface water, groundwater, and soil.

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Leachate

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Causes people to be at risk of getting sick due to bacteria and viruses by bathing in polluted waters.

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Bathing in contaminated water reservoirs

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Can cause different problems to a person’s health. Shellfish filter water through their gills to trap microscopic pants and animals for their food.

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Contaminated shellfish

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Certain fish in contaminated waters can accumulate high levels of toxic substances.

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Contaminated fish

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24
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Can cause liver and kidney damage.

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Detergents

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Carries disease-causing organisms, leading to infection of the small intestine, amoebic dysentery, and cholera.

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Sewage water

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Creates harmful emissions such as carbon dioxide and sulfur when it is burned.

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Biomass

27
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Is often added to gasoline since their combination burns cleaner than pure gasoline.

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Ethanol

28
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Gives off less sulfur oxide, particular matter, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons when burned than conventional petroleum diesel.

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Biodiesel

29
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Methane and carbon dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas. Landfill gas can move from a landfill through soil and to air outside or inside a building

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Landfill gas

30
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Weathering, erosion, sedimentation, and mass wasting are called?

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exogenic process

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The breaking down of ricks and other materials on the earth’s surface.

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Weathering

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This occurs when rocks break into pieces without changing their CHEMICAL composition.

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Mechanical weathering

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This occurs when the chemical composition of rocks are changed due to the ACTION of other substances.

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Chemical weathering

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This breaks rocks because of the changes in temperatures.

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Temperature

35
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The repeated changes in temperature cause the surface of the rocks to peel off.

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Exfoliation

36
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A unique property of water is that it expands when it freezes.

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Frost Action

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This is the wearing off of rocks by solid particles carried by wind, water, and other agents.

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Abrasion

38
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This changes the mineral content and the chemical composition of rocks.

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Chemical Weathering

39
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Almost all chemical weathering is due to the action of water. It can form acids when it combines with some of the gases in the air.

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Water

40
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This combines with other substances to form entirely new substances.

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Oxygen

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Soil remains on top of its parent rock or the rock form which it was formed.

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Residual soil

42
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When the soil is moved to other places by wind, water, glaciers, and waves on other land.

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transported soil

43
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the parent rock beneath the residual and transported soils.

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bedrock

44
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The product of weathering is carried away by erosion to other places.

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Soil

45
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Process in which soil and weathered rocks are transported from one place to another.

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Erosion

46
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Eroded rocks and soil are deposited in other places through a process called?

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deposition or sedimentation

47
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The most active agent of erosion.

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Wind

48
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These are mounds that are built by wind consisting of loose sand.

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Dunes

49
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A deposit of fine sand and silt.

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Loess

50
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This constantly erode and shape shorelines.

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Waves

51
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Consists of fine sand or large pebbles that are carried by waves to the shoes of the sea.

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Beaches

52
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Submerged or partly exposed ridges of sand and coarse sediments.

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Sandbars

53
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One of the major agents of erosion.

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Running water

54
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Rainwater that flows on the surface towards river streams.

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runoff

55
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U-shaped body of water that forms when a river fins a different, shorter course

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oxbow lake

56
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fan-shaped deposit of gravel, sand, and even smaller pieces of sediment.

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alluvial fan

57
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A landform created by the deposition of sediments carried by a river as the stream flows to a lake or an ocean.

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delta

58
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A flat area of land close to a river or stream.

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floodplain

59
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a natural wall that blocks the flow of water

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levee

60
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This erode surfaces through abrasion.

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Glaciers

61
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the accumulation of dirt and rocks that have fallen onto glacier surfaces.

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moraine

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