What is any solid, liquid, or gas that is harmful to humans or animal life?

• Hazardous Waste

• Trash

• Landfills

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

Nonbiodegradable products can last for how many years?

• 10

• 50

• 100

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

VOCABULARY:

Hazardous waste

• waste that has substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment

• trash that can be recycled

• broken glass

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

What does it mean to have a sustainable lifestyle?

• To be a vegetarian

• Reduce the use of the Earth's natural resources and your own personal resources

• To live without modern technology (TV, phone, internet)

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Why are non-biodegradable plastics a problem in the environment?

• They do not decompose or break down naturally

• They leak toxic chemicals

• They are filling up lakes and ponds

• They contain poisons for wildlife

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

These are wastes that can easily decompose in the soil?

• biodegradable

• e - waste

• nonbiodegradable

• metal waste

Refers to the practice of proper waste disposal.

• Waste management

• Marketing management

• Strategic management

• Human management

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Hazardous waste is:

• corrosive

• ignitable

• toxic

• all of these

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

All of the following are methods of solid waste disposal EXCEPT:

• landfills

• open dumping 

• incineration

• recovery 

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

A process in which mixed garbage is burned at very high temperatures is:

• recovery

• incineration

• leachate

• source reduction