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WorksheetsWASTE MANAGEMENT TEST REVIEW 4th period new
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 27mins
Avoid overpackaged products.
Avoid using paper products unless necessary.
Produce less waste
Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
Products can either be reused as it is, or go through some sort of processing and reuse the materials that they are made out of.
Produce less waste
Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
When the product has been recycled, then we could buy the product that was created from the recycled materials.
Produce less waste
Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
Put things like yard waste and food scraps in a pile and let the bacteria and fungi have the opportunity to decompose it.
Produce less waste
Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
Manufacturers could reduce waste and conserve resources by making products that:
Use more materials
Are more durable and last longer
Are difficult to repair
Are disposable
What is the best way to reduce an over-supply of recyclable materials?
Build more recycling plants
Limiting the amount of recyclable
Materials that can be collected
Increasing the demand for products made from recycled materials
Put the excess into landfills
Where does your trash go when you throw it away?
Trash goes into garbage trucks and is hauled to landfills or incinerators.
All trash is sorted and sent to recycling centers
Trash is collected and used as an energy source.
All trash is converted into compost
any discarded material that is not a liquid or a gas
Solid Waste
Agricultural Waste
Biological Waste
Incineratory Waste
How much solid waste is produced by Americans each year?
400 tons
10 billion tons
25 thousand tons
100 billion tons
Solid waste includes all of the following except:
newspapers and soda bottles
Food Scraps and Yard Clippings
Ozone and Carbon dioxide
Junk mail and milk cartons
material that can be broken down by things like bacteria and fungi. This breakdown is called DECAY. The nutrients released can be used by other living things
Biodegradable waste
Dissolvable waste
Impermeable waste
Synthetic waste
Waste Products produced from natural materials
Biodegradable products
Renewable products
Sufficient products
Insoluable products
Synthetic
substances that are made by combining chemicals to form compounds that do not
exist in nature.
Ex. Polyester,
nylon, and plastic
NonBiodegradable waste
Biodegradable waste
Recycled waste
Synthetic waste
Artificial waste
If your shirt is made of 50% cotton and 50% polyester, what part is biodegradable?
Cotton
Polyester
Both are Biodegradable
Neither one are Biodegradable
How is plastic created?
Grows on Takoah trees in the Amazon Rain Forest
Plastic is created from the sludge left over from the distillation of crude oil.
Plastic is created in the WalMart distribution centers.
Plastics are mined from the Earth using strip mining.
Microorganisms are unable to break down plastic because
Plastics are made from oil
Plastics are too abundant
Plastics are made of elements not found in any other substance
Plastics do not occur in nature
What percentage of solid waste is:
Manufacturing waste
56%
9%
26%
2%
6%
What percentage of solid waste is:
Agriculture
waste
56%
9%
26%
2%
6%
What percentage of solid waste is:
Municipal (Homes and businesses)
56%
9%
26%
2%
6%
What percentage of solid waste is:
Hazardous waste
56%
9%
26%
2%
6%
waste-disposal facility where wastes are put in the ground and covered each day with a layer of dirt, plastic, or both
Open Dump Site
LandFill
Incinerators
Recycling centers
Why are landfills safer than open dump sites like we used to have?
Open dump sites produced terrible smells and provided a breeding ground for flies and rats.
Open dump sites make the entire community look bad
Landfills cannot be breached by dumpster divers
The continual burning that occured in the open dump sites created a lot of pollution.
Water seeping down through the garbage will dissolve many poisons as it passed through. This poisonous water is called
LEACHATE
PERCULATION
TOXIC SEEPAGE
LIQUID WASTE EMISSIONS
How can we prevent the methane problem that occurs in landfills?
use pipes to vent the landfill and allow the methane gas to be released safely into the atmosphere.
Do not put organic compounds into the landfill.
Use a plastic liner to contain the methane gas.
Burn all trash before buring it in the landfill.
Leachate is a substance that:
Leachate is produced in a compost pile
Leachate is a byproduct of bacterial digestion
Leachate is what Leaches have for dinner
Leachate contains dissolved toxic chemicals
What is a solid waste incinerator?
A device used to burn solid waste
A device used to compact solid waste
A device used to recycle solid waste
A type of landfill that has a porcelain liner
Which is not a benefit of incinerating waste?
It reduces the amount of materials set to the landfill
It produces energy in the form of heat
It can be used to produce Electricity
It destroys all of the toxic materials in the waste
Describe ways to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills and incinerators:
Avoid overpackaged products.
Produce less waste
. Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
None of these
Describe ways to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills and incinerators:
Avoid using paper products unless necessary.
Produce less waste
. Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
None of these
Describe ways to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills and incinerators:
Products can be reused as it is
Produce less waste
. Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
None of these
Describe ways to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills and incinerators:
The product can go through some sort of processing and reuse the materials that they are made out of
Produce less waste
. Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
None of these
Describe ways to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills and incinerators:
Once the product has been recycled, then we could buy the product that was created from the recycled materials.
Produce less waste
. Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
None of these
Describe ways to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills and incinerators:
Put things like yard waste and food scraps in a pile and let the bacteria and fungi have the opportunity to decompose it.
Produce less waste
. Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
None of these
Describe ways to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills and incinerators:
After decomposition, This rotted material t can be used as fertilizer.
Produce less waste
. Recycle
Buy Recycled
Composting
None of these
Manufacturers could reduce waste and conserve resources by making products that:
Use more materials
Are more durable and last longer
Are difficult to repair
Are disposable
Which of the following is a true statement regarding composting?
Compostiing Increases the amount of materials put in landfills
Composting Is a natural way to decompose biodegradable materials.
Compositng is a method of making bricks out of sludge
All of the above are true
What is the best way to reduce an over-supply of recyclable materials?
Build more recycling plants
Increasing the demand for products made from recycled materials
Limiting the amount of recyclable Materials that can be collected
Put the excess into landfills
Waste that are toxic, highly corrosive, or explodes easily.
Hazardous waste
Biological Waste
Biodegradable
Leachate
Where does Plastic come from?
Plastic is created from the residue left over from the fractional distillation of crude oil.
Plastic is created from Rubber Tree Plants and Aloe leaves
plastic is created in factories by blendiing animal fats with plant Starches
Plastic is not natural to the Earth. It was discovered inside a meteor that hit the Earth centuries ago.
Why is this a true statement?
everything plastic that we throw away will stay in the landfill for hundreds of years if not more.
plastic is nonbiodegradable
Due to its Alien origin, the plastic cells keep regenerating themselves.
Plastic is Biodegradable
Plastic is a solid
Microorganisms are unable to break down plastic because:
Plastics are made from oil
Plastics are too abundant
Plastics are made of elements not found in any other substance.
Plastics do not occur in nature
Examples of hazardous waste include all of the following except:
Battery acid
Paint
Yard Waste
Motor oil
Wastes are pumped deep into the ground, where they are absorbed into a dry layer of rock below the level of groundwater
Deep well injection
Surface impoundment
Off shore drilling
Fractional Distillation
A pond with a sealed bottom. The wastes settle to the bottom of the pond while water evaporates and leaves room to add more waste.
Hazardous wastes in concentrated or solid form are often put in drums and buried in landfills.
Deep well injection
Surface impoundment
Off shore drilling
Fractional Distillation
Any type of land disposal of hazardous waste is a scary thing. Identify some things that could happen to these "contained" hazardous waste.
Disposal sites may develop leaks and contaminate the surrounding environment.
Another danger is that the material never goes away- it is simply stored. Unforeseen changes in the environment such as an earth quake could cause serious contamination
Since the location of these sites is public knowledge, enemies may invade or attack our hazardous waste sites.
As the Radioactive hazardous waste goes through Radioactive Decay, it may change into an element that cannot be contained.
Explain how the united states could produce less hazardous waste
Use elements that are not a danger to the environment.
Manufacturers could design factories to produce less hazardous waste or none at all.
Companies could cooperate to reuse discarded hazardous wastes
Some chemicals could be reacted with other chemicals to make them less hazardous
This act gave the Environmental Protection Agency the right to sue the owners of hazardous-waste sites to make them pay for the cleanup
Superfund Act
The National Earth Day Act
The GreenTree Act
The EPA supercede Act
