APES Review Flashcards
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| 13222954208 | largest producers of solid waste in US | agriculture, industry, mining | 0 | |
| 13222958218 | municipal solid waste | solid materials discarded by homes, office buildings, retail stores, schools etc | 1 | |
| 13222974597 | most common method of solid waste disposal | sanitary landfills | 2 | |
| 13222978567 | problems associated with landfills | methane gas produced by microorganisms, contamination of surface water and groundwater by leachate (water tainted with pollutants), not a long term remedy, few new facilities being opened, closing a full landfill is very expensive | 3 | |
| 13222992125 | disposal of tires | made from non recyclable materials; tire fires that start are extremely difficult to put out and release toxins into the air | 4 | |
| 13223002086 | problems with incineration | production of hazardous air pollutants (carbon monoxide, particulates, heavy metals); bottom ash (slag) and fly ash are byproducts | 5 | |
| 13223026289 | source reduction | the reduction for he amount/toxicity of waste at or before the point of generation; products designed and manufactured to decrease the volume of solid waste; reuse and recycle wastes at the plant where they are generated | 6 | |
| 13223045966 | refillable glass bottles | can be used to make "glasphalt"; isn't used because its expensive | 7 | |
| 13223055462 | aluminum cans | Most successful recycling program | 8 | |
| 13223058057 | plastic recycling | most plastics are mixed and difficult to recycle; chemically stable so they do not readily break down and decompose | 9 | |
| 13223066855 | fungicide | kills fungi | 10 | |
| 13223069179 | herbicide | kill or inhibit the growth of unwanted vegetation | 11 | |
| 13223074821 | insecticide | kills insects | 12 | |
| 13223077046 | rodenticide | kills rodents | 13 | |
| 13223077047 | genetic resistance | Pest populations are evolving resistance to pesticides | 14 | |
| 13223110824 | problems with pesticides | cost increasing; have to start applying more and stronger pesticides and effectiveness continues to decrease; imbalances the ecosystem; they don't stay where they are applied | 15 | |
| 13223128969 | Bioaccumulation | the buildup of a persistent pesticide or other toxic substance in an organism's body | 16 | |
| 13223133451 | Biomagnification | increase concentration of toxic chemicals in tissues of organisms at high trophic levels | 17 | |
| 13223145464 | broad spectrum pesticide | a pesticide that kills a variety of organisms not just the targeted organisms | 18 | |
| 13223155496 | narrow spectrum pesticide | a pesticide that is species specific to kill only the targeted organisms | 19 |