Chapter 14 Vocabulary

5 Written Questions

1. Substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.
2. Power generated by moving water.
3. Metals that are utilized in the production of iron and steel.
4. Addition of more waste than a resource can accommodate.
5. The number of species in a specific habitat.

5 Matching Questions

1. Ozone
2. Fossil Fuel
3. Sustainable Development
4. Photovoltaic Cell
5. Biochemical Oxygen Demand

1. a Source of energy that is finite and capable of being exhausted.
2. b Energy source formed from residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago.
3. c Mechanism that collects solar rays to generate electricity.
4. d Oxygen needed to allow aquatic bacteria to decompose a given load of organic waste.
5. e Can be maintained in a country without depleting resources to the extent that future generations will be unable to keep up.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Energy source that derives from plant material and animal waste.
   1. Biodiversity
   2. Biomass Fuel
   3. Fission
   4. Fossil Fuel
2. Anticipated increase in Earth's temperature caused by carbon dioxide being trapped in the Earth's atmosphere.
   1. Resource
   2. Renewable Energy
   3. Green House Effect
   4. Proven Reserve
3. Particles from a nuclear reaction that emit radiation; contact with such particles may be harmful or lethal to people and must therefore be safely stored for thousands of years.
   1. Inanimate Power
   2. Radioactive Waste
   3. Biodiversity
   4. Animate Power
4. The joining two nuclei of two hydrogen atoms to form helium.
   1. Ferrous
   2. Pollution
   3. Fusion
   4. Fission
5. Place to deposit solid waste, where a layer of earth is bulldozed over garbage everyday to reduce emissions, minimize fires, and discourage vermin.
   1. Air Pollution
   2. Biomass Fuel
   3. Sanitary Landfill
   4. Animate Power

5 True/False Questions

1. Nonferrous → Metals utilized to make products other than iron and steel

   True        False

2. Nonrenewable Energy → Source of energy that is finite and capable of being exhausted.

   True        False

3. Active Solar Energy Systems → Energy that collects energy through the use of mechanical devices like photovotaic cells or flat-plate collectors

   True        False

4. Preservation → Maintenance of a resource in it present condition, with little or no human interaction.

   True        False

5. Proven Reserve → The amount of a resource remaining in discovered deposits.

   True        False