Water & Waste Management BR

Passed in 1976 to regulate solid and hazardous waste disposal

• Superfund Act
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Clean Water Act
• Clean Air Act

Toxic, corrosive, or explosive material

• solid waste
• hazardous waste
• municipal waste
• plant waste

Which regulation requires hazardous waste producers to document how waste is handled?

• Superfund Act
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
• Landfill Act
• Hazardous Waste Act

Products made from synthetic materials, such as polyester, plastic, and parts of electronics (E-waste), are -

• nonbiodegradable

• biodegradable

The waste produced by households and businesses is –

• Miscellaneous waste

• Machinery waste

• Municipal waste

• Multiple waste

One problem with landfills is the liquid that forms when water seeps down through a landfill and collects dissolved chemicals from decomposing garbage. This is called -

• ash

• sediment

• sludge

• leachates

An additional problem with landfills is that decomposing organic waste may produce the highly flammable gas -

• methane

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• ozone

An area of land where the surface water and ground water drain into a particular body of water.

• aquifer
• watershed
• subsidence
• divide

Water that collects in cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.

• Groundwater

• Surface Water

• Permeable

• Impermeable

What is the supplying of water to land through artificial means?

• Sprinkling

• Evapotransporation

• Irrigation

• natural rain

• Dont go chasing waterfalls stick to the rivers and streams your used to