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Understanding Food, Water, Minerals, and Pollution Management

This comprehensive overview covers key concepts related to food production, water usage, mineral resource management, and pollution control. It highlights the impact of industrialized agriculture, the significance of water resources, the environmental effects of mining, and the importance of integrated waste management strategies to improve sustainability. The document examines issues such as soil erosion, water pollution, and waste reduction, emphasizing effective approaches to manage natural resources responsibly for future generations.

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Understanding Food, Water, Minerals, and Pollution Management

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  1. 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

  2. A type of agriculture that requires large amounts of fossil fuels, pesticides, fertilizers and water

  3. What is industrialized

  4. Alternating rows of crops with trees is known as

  5. What is agroforestry

  6. Two ways that agriculture can harm land

  7. What is soil erosion and salinization

  8. The ideal pesticide would

  9. What is would kill only the targeted pest

  10. Integrated pest management includes 3 approaches

  11. What is biological, chemical and ecological approaches

  12. Percentage of Earth’s water available for human use

  13. What is .02%

  14. Throughout the world, most water is used for

  15. What is irrigation

  16. Saltwater intrustion, subsidence and aquifer depletion are all effects of the overuse of ______ water

  17. What is ground

  18. It is most economical and environmentally sound to focus water management efforts on

  19. What is using water more efficiently

  20. Porous, saturated layers of underground rock are known as

  21. What are aquifers

  22. Which disturbs more land, surface or subsurface mining?

  23. What is surface

  24. The time it takes to use up 80% of a mineral reserve at current use rates is known as

  25. What is depletion time

  26. The major detrimental effect of acid mine drainage is

  27. What is contamination of groundwater

  28. Mining a high-grade ore would cause more/ less environmental damage than mining a low-grade ore

  29. What is less

  30. Mining can lead to these environmental effects

  31. What is collapse of land, acid mine drainage, emissions of toxic chemicals, spoils heaps

  32. Coliform bacteria can be used to indicate

  33. What is water quality

  34. Organic wastes cause the dissolved oxygen content to

  35. What is decrease

  36. A class of pollutants that can lead to excessive growth of algae

  37. What is inorganic plant nutrients (nitrates and phosphates)

  38. Oxygen sag curves occur when

  39. What is oxygen demanding wastes are added to water

  40. Lakes/rivers are more susceptible to water pollution

  41. What are lakes

  42. The law that was put in place in response to the Love Canal incident

  43. What is Superfund

  44. The US, with 5% of the world’s population produces ____ of the world’s trash

  45. What is 1/3

  46. Trash produced by households and businesses accounts for _% of the US trash production

  47. What is 2 %

  48. In a low-waste approach, this approach would be given the least priority

  49. What is burying trash

  50. This law set EPA standards for waste management programs

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