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MINING100

What is the name of minerals that contain valuable

substances?

A: Ore minerals

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MINING 200

A: inorganic

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Are minerals inorganic or organic?

MINING 300

A:Comprehensive Response Compensation and Liability Act

What act regulates the release of hazardous substances into the air,

soil and water by mining?

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MINING 400

A: Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977

This act sets standards to minimize the surface effects of coal mining on

the environment.

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MINING 500

A: muddy sediments

What is the biggest contaminant to rivers during the dredging process?


NR100

A: From the decay of tiny marine organisms that accumulated on the bottom of the ocean

floor millions of years ago.

How are oil and natural gas formed?


NR 200

A: Industry


Most of the energy used in the U.S. is used by what sector of society?

NR 300

A: D - magnetism


A fuel’s suitability is dependent on all of the following factors, except:

a. Energy contentb. Cost

c. Availabilityd. Magnetism

NR400

A: Plants from swamps decompose and the swamps are buried in sediments that heat and compress the plants into coal.

How is coal formed?


NR 500

A: Burning coal produces heat which turns water into steam which turns a turbine thus running an electric generator.

How is electricity generated in a coal-fired power plant?


RENEWABLE100

A: Sources that are constantly being formed and that can be used to generate energy.

What is the definition for “renewable energy sources”.


RENEWABLE 200

A: Wood and dung can be burned for heat, biogas digesters ferment manure to produce methane, ethanol from corn is added to gasoline.

What is biomass and how is it used to generate energy?


RENEWABLE 300


A:Only in areas where deposits of water are heated inside the Earth.


Where must geothermal power plants be located to be effective?

RENEWABLE 400


A: Ocean water boils at low temperatures when under low pressure in a vacuum.

On what principle of water is Ocean Thermal Energy

Conversion based?


RENEWABLE 500

A: Using waste heat to generate energy.

What is Cogeneration?


WASTE100

A: paper


What item is the largest percentage of waste produced

by households and businesses?

WASTE 200

A: Placing of food products from homes, restaurants, and animal feedlots into compost bins to allow the material to decompose along with grass clippings, yard waste, etc.


What is composting and what items can be composted?

WASTE 300

A: Hazardous waste. EPA may sue companies that illegally dump hazardous waste.


1) What does the Superfund Act regulate and what may the EPA do under that regulation?

WASTE 400

A: Waste is stored in deep layers of dry rock below the water table.


What is the process of deep well injection?

WASTE 500

A:Plastics that deteriorate when exposed to the sun.

Plastics that contain sugars and can be broken down by bacteria.

Plastics that break down into smaller pieces of plastic.


Name three types of degradable plastics.

WASTE100

A: Something that can be broken down by biological processes.

What is the definition for a degradable material?


WASTE 200

A: You use less energy to make a product out of recycle materials then you do than getting new mined materials to make the product.

When you make products from recycled materials how are you helping save energy?


WASTE 300

A:Wood, food, yard waste, animals, plants, organic matter. They must be organic.

Name three types of biodegradable materials and must they be organic or inorganic.


WASTE 400


A:By the biological breakdown of organic material.

How is methane produced?

WASTE 500

A:They must have a clay and plastic liner.

They must have a system to collect and treat leachate.

They must have a system to collect and burn methane

Name three requirements of landfills built today.


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