Vocabulary 8-4 technology as trash

Ask the _____ about the price before making your purchase.

• merchant

• electronics

• lagoon

• mercury

He swept the leaves up into a _____.

• pile

• scrap

• lead

• proportion

The corruption here is on a grand _____.

• scale

• equipment

• landfill

• arsenic

With technological improves many traditional skills have become _____. 

• obsolete

• kept up

• humid

• circular

Clean your table and _____ those you don't need anymore!

• discard

• divert

• notify

• cost

The urban area has become more crowded because the _____ of population lives here.

• bulk

• shipment

• toxic

• potential

Mercury is a chemical _____.

• substance

• load

• recycling

• transition

Many pesticides are highly _____. You'd better be careful.

• toxic

• significant

• destructive

• cost-effective

Under extremely hot condition, the _____ effects of bacteria are lowered.

• destructive

• recycling

• distressing

• disposal

The government has to _____ the rise in violent crime.

• address

• keep up

• repurpose

• divert