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Unit 1.B Flashcards

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1
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What percent of earths water is in the oceans

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97

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2
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Where is majority of freshwater located

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Frozen in ice caps and glaciers

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3
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What percent of water is used for agricultural sectors

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~70

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4
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What is an aquifer

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Water stored underground in sand and bedrock through which groundwater flows

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What is a water table

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The uppermost level at which water satuates the rock and soil

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What is a recharge area

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Supplies water to aquifer through infiltration and percolation of precipitation

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7
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What is the Ogallala aquifer

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Largest aquifer in the U.S.
Beneath Great Plains

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8
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Removing excessive ground water can cause:

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Cones of depression near the withdrawn well

Salt water intrusion near coastlines

Sink holes, land subsidence

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What happens in Primary Treatment for waste water

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Physical separation

Screening and grit removes most suspended solids

Primary clarifiers separate liquids and solids

Solids go to digestion and turn to sludge

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What happens in Secondary Treatment for waste water

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Anaerobic bacteria is used to digest the waste

Secondary clarifiers remove bacteria from liquids

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What happens in Tertiary Treatment for waste water

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Chemical and physical processes aimed at removing special pollutants

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What happens in Disinfection for waste water

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UV light or chlorine is used to kill pathogenic bacteria and viruses

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After being treated, where does waste water go

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Into local surface water or pumped into aquifers

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What is industrial waste

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Waste produced by mining, agriculture, etc providing us with goods and services

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What is municipal solid waste (MSW)

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Waste produced by homes and businesses

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What are hazardous wastes

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Wastes that are poisonous, chemically reactive, flammable, dangerous

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What is the composition of MSW for the U.S.

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  1. Paper
  2. Food wastes
  3. Plastic
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18
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Where does most trash in the U.S. go

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Landfills

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19
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What are open clump landfills

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Fields and holes in the ground for trash

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What are sanitary landfills

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Spread MSW in layers, cover and compact with clay, dries trash, reduces leachate leakage

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21
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What are landfill issues

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Anaerobic conditions slow decomposition rates

Anaerobic conditions produce methane which is flammable and a greenhouse gas

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22
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Where are most incinerators found

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Europe

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What are incinerators/waste-to-energy-burn plants

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Burns trash to boil water and generate electricity

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What are plastics

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Variety of materials made of polymer-containing compounds

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Plastics are a type of petrochemical, what is that

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Means it is most often generated from natural gas or petroleum

26
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What are microplastics

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Floating just below the surface trapped in vortexes of rotating ocean currents

27
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What percent of open waters have floating plastic debris with plastic on the seafloor

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90

28
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What is primary recyclling

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Closed loop, using materials again for the same purpose

29
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What is secondary recyclling

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Open loop, waste materials are converted into different products

30
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What is planned obsolescence

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Objects are designed to be trashed rather than fixed or reused

31
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What is traditional waste management

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Treats all wastes by burning, burying, or shipping them to focus on object’s end and getting rid of it

32
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What is integrated waste management

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Emphasizes waste reduction b4 its even produced

33
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What is source reduction

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Using less materials in design and manufacturing that would become waste, prevent waste generation

34
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What is cradle-to-cradle

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Approach to manufacturing, a circular economy. No waste leftover

35
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What is the Basel Convention

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Bans the export of hazardous wastes, plastics, and e-waste to other countries without permission

36
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What is the Superfund Act/CERCLA

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Cleans up hazardous waste sites

37
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What is the Toxic Release Inventory/TRI

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Published to notify residents of storage and release of toxic chemicals in their regoin

38
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What is the Resource Conservation and Recoverey Act/RCRA

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Established cradle-to-grave system of recordkeeping and permitting for generation, transport, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous wastes

39
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What is the lithosphere

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The outermost, cooler, rigid of rock on earths surface. Where the tectonic plates are

40
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What is the asthenosphere

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The layer on top of the mantle that consists of hot, molten rock. In motion

41
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Oceanic crust properties

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Underwater

More dense bc of a greater amount of metals

Floats lower on the asthenosphere

42
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Continential crust properties

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Less dense

Made of silicate rock

Floats higher on the asthenosphere

43
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Where do convection currents occur within earth

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Asthenosphere

44
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What do convection currents do related to earths surface

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They force themselves through tectonic plates which force the plates to either collide or diverge

45
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What is subduction

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A more dense tectonic plates goes underneath a less dense tectonic plate

46
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What occurs when a continental plate and an oceanic plate converge

Where/world example

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Trenches

South america/Andes mountains

47
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What occurs when an oceanic plate and an oceanic plate converge

Where/world example

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Islands

Southeast Asia- japan and indonesia

48
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What occurs when a continental plate and a continental plate converge

Where/world example

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Nonvolcanic mountains

Himalayas

49
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What occurs when an oceanic plate and an oceanic plate diverge

Where/world example

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Mid ocean ridges

Iceland and mid-atlantic ocean ridge

50
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What occurs when a continental plate and a continental plate diverge

Where/world example

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Rift valleys

African rift valley

51
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What occurs when a continental plate and a continental plate transform into eachother

Where/world example

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Earthquakes and fault lines

San Andreas fault line

52
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What is a reserve

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A known quality of resource that can be economically recovered

53
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What is ore

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Concentration of mineral from which valuable materials can be extracted

54
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What are gangue minerals/tailings

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Material extracted with the ore that has no value and is considered waste

55
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What is placer mining

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Obtaining minerals from river sediments

56
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What is subsurface mining

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Used when ores are more than 100m below earths surface. Dig straight down and then towards ores.

57
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What are the types of surface mining

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Strip, open-pit, and mountaintop removing

58
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What is strip mining

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Mining in a straight line when ore is parallel to earths surface.

Spoils, removed overburden, is returned to hole and topsoil is replaced

59
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What is open-pit mining

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Digging a large hole in the ground if ore runs horizontal and vertically beneath earths surface, removing layer by layer.

60
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What is mountaintop removal mining

Where is it commonly done

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Uses explosives to access ore within a mountain

Appalachian mountains

61
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What is acid mine drainage

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Sulfuric acid produced by anaerobic bacteria acting on sulfur compounds in mining waters. Releases toxic heavy metals from soil or bedrock

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