UNIT 5 TEST

Questions
What involves reducing waste and reusing natural resources?
 Conservation
What are the 3Rs in order?
 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Saving 10 liters of water in a week will save how much water in a year?
 520 litres
How does reusing things help the environment?
 You use less natural resources
Which is the most important of the 3Rs?
 Reduce
What should you do before you recycle?
 Reuse
Why is recycling difficult?
 It takes time, energy, and money
The average family of 4 makes about how much trash in a year?
 3000 kilograms

True and False

Trash production has doubled in the US since 1960.
True
A goal of conservation is to use resources as much as possible.
False
Everything can be recycled or reused.
False
Recycling conserves materials and energy.
True
Product packaging is a major source of paper and plastic waste.
True
It takes less energy to make products from recycled materials than from new
materials.
True

Vocabulary
Hydroelectric energy:  Electricity produced by moving water.
Nonrenewable resource: An energy source that exists in a fixed amount or that is
used up faster than it can be replaced in nature.
Recycling:  The process of recovering materials that would normally be thrown
away.
Fossil fuels: A nonrenewable energy source formed from ancient plants and
animals.
Natural resource: An energy source, organism, or substance found in nature that
people use.
Hydrogen fuel cell: A device that produces electricity by combining hydrogen and
oxygen.
Conservation:  The process of protecting, restoring, and managing natural
resources so they last as long as possible.
Renewable resource: An energy source that can be replaced in nature at about
the same rate it is used.

A good way to reduce your personal resource use is to eat less meat.
Recycling involves recovering and extending natural resources.
source, organism, or substance found in nature that people use.
A natural resource is any
materials and energy.
Natural resources provide
renewable resources.
Sunlight, wind, water, and trees and other plants are all
nonrenewable resources.
Coal, oil, natural gas, uranium, and minerand rocks are all
energy.
Fossil fuels supply most of society's
burn easily and produce alot of heat.
Fossil fuels
fossil fuels, minerals, and plants.
Modern products are all made from
use natural resources wisely.
To protect the planet and maintain modern life people must
protect human health, and slow the growing mountains of trash.
Conservation programs can be used to extend natural resources,
sources of energy.
Fossil fuels are not the only
nuclear fission.
The nucleus is split in the process of
huge amount of energy.
Nuclear fission creates lighter elements and a
natural gas.
Splitting one atom of uranium produces 20 million times the amount of energy as
burning one molecule of
produces radioactive waste.
A disadvantage of nuclear fission is that it
produce energy with little or no pollution.
An advantage of renewable energy sources is that they
to pay for developing them on a large scale.
A disadvantage of renewable energy sources is that they don't yet produce enough
energy
produces no pollution.
An advantage of hydroelectricity is that it
damage the environment and cause water shortages downriver.
A disadvantage of hydroelectricity is that dams can
expensive and somewhat inefficient.
Current methods of collecting solar energy are
clean and renewable.
An advantage of geothermal energy is that it is
hot water close to the surface.
A disadvantage of geothermal energy is that it is limited to areas with
is clean and renewable.
An advantage of wind energy is that it
strong winds blowing lots of the time.
A disadvantage of wind energy is that it depends on
land.
Wind farms take up a lot of
noisy.
The turning blades of a wind turbine can be
organic matter, such as plants and animal waste.
Biomass is
resources that would usually be wasted.
An advantage of biomass energy is that it uses
fossil fuels.
A disadvantage of biomass energy is that it can release as much carbon dioxide as
take up space that can be used to grow food.
Another disadvantage of biomass energy is that biomass crops
water and heat as byproducts.
Hydrogen fuel cells are a clean source of energy that produce only
expensive and potentially dangerous.
A disadvantage of hydrogen fuel cells is that they are