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Ch 13: Food Ch. 14: Water Use Ch. 15: Minerals Ch 21: Water Pollution Ch. 22: Waste Management 1pt 1 pt 1 pt 1pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2pt 2pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4pt 4 pt 4pt 5pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt
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A type of agriculture that requires large amounts of fossil fuels, pesticides, fertilizers and water
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What is industrialized
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Alternating rows of crops with trees is known as
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What is agroforestry
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Two ways that agriculture can harm land
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What is soil erosion and salinization
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The ideal pesticide would
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What is would kill only the targeted pest
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Integrated pest management includes 3 approaches
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What is biological, chemical and ecological approaches
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Percentage of Earth’s water available for human use
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What is .02%
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Throughout the world, most water is used for
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What is irrigation
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Saltwater intrustion, subsidence and aquifer depletion are all effects of the overuse of ______ water
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What is ground
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It is most economical and environmentally sound to focus water management efforts on
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What is using water more efficiently
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Porous, saturated layers of underground rock are known as
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What are aquifers
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Which disturbs more land, surface or subsurface mining?
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What is surface
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The time it takes to use up 80% of a mineral reserve at current use rates is known as
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What is depletion time
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The major detrimental effect of acid mine drainage is
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What is contamination of groundwater
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Mining a high-grade ore would cause more/ less environmental damage than mining a low-grade ore
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What is less
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Mining can lead to these environmental effects
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What is collapse of land, acid mine drainage, emissions of toxic chemicals, spoils heaps
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Coliform bacteria can be used to indicate
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What is water quality
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Organic wastes cause the dissolved oxygen content to
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What is decrease
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A class of pollutants that can lead to excessive growth of algae
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What is inorganic plant nutrients (nitrates and phosphates)
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Oxygen sag curves occur when
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What is oxygen demanding wastes are added to water
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Lakes/rivers are more susceptible to water pollution
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What are lakes
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The law that was put in place in response to the Love Canal incident
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What is Superfund
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The US, with 5% of the world’s population produces ____ of the world’s trash
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What is 1/3
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Trash produced by households and businesses accounts for _% of the US trash production
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What is 2 %
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In a low-waste approach, this approach would be given the least priority
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What is burying trash
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This law set EPA standards for waste management programs
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What is Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
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