ES Exam 2
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- water used for irrigation
- 2/3 of fresh water
- power
- rate at which work is done
- Yellowstone
- largest geothermal region in the US
- hydroelectric
- accounts for 7 percent of renewable energy
- Yucca Mountain, NV
- nuclear waste stored in US for 1 million years
- Great Plains
- the Saudi Arabia of wind power
- point source
- pollution derived from a specific location
- open dumps
- the predominant waste handling method in developing countries such as Mexico City and Manila
- Iceland
- relies entirely on geothermal energy
- ground water zones lowest to highest
- zone of saturation, water table, zone of aeration
- wisconsin dells
- noahs ark, world's largest waterpark
- US GDP position
- 6th
- 1.5 billion
- have no access to safe drinking water
- pros to dams
- irrigation, electric, supply
- waste disposal
- open dumps, ocean dumping, sanitary landfills
- dust bowl
- caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation
- hazardous waste
- any discarded material known to be fatal in low doses, toxic, ignitable, corosive
- midwest flood of 1993
- black river in wisconsin, mississippi, missouri, kansas
- land surface used by agriculture production
- 11 percent or 14.66 million km2
- suface mining control and reclamation act of 1977
- limited strip mines on farms and steep slopes. restoration of land to original contours
- Clean water Act of 1972
- set national water quality goals, pollutant discharge policy
- Tallahassee's water source
- Floridan aquifer
- petroleum, coal, natural gas
- make up US power
- NIMBY
- Not In My Back Yard
- Oil
- 40 years left
- Ducktown, TN
- example of an environmentally degraded smelting community
- floodplain
- area periodically underwater over a 100 year timespan. biggest economic loss through contamination
- Norway
- relies almost entirely on hydroelectric
- Bingham Canyon
- example of an open pit mine
- Chernobyl
- Apr 25 1986
- 3 gorges dam
- yangtze river, largest in world, 1 million people displaced, finless dolphin extinct
- heap leach
- chemical solutions dissolve ore, piling, spraying w/ alkaline cyanide, clay pads line sides
- ocean dumping
- occurs in large amounts around the world
- placer
- panning for gold, water cannons
- Saudi Arabia
- has the largest supply of oil
- 3 types of harvesting
- clear cutting, strip cutting, selective cutting
- Natural Gas
- 60 years left
- percent of global energy that comes from fossil fuels
- 87 percent
- 3 billion
- have no adequate sanitation
- Wind
- fastest growing source of renewable energy
- 70 percent of global natural gas reserves
- Former Soviet Union and Middle East
- .02 percent
- amount of water available for human use
- reasons of flooding
- paved roads, cleared forests, building on floodplains, levees, floodwalls
- Toxic Release Inventory
- manufacturing facilites must report releases over 300 toxins
- National Priority List
- 1600 sites with leakage or potential leakage
- CA
- heats water for 650,000 homes using solar panels
- joule
- energy unit
- industry
- largest share of energy in the US. 1/4 of worlds water usage
- Amazon River
- river with the greatest discharge
- energy
- capacity to do work
- gray water
- 50-80 percent
- smelting
- roasted ore to release metals, air pollutant
- cons to dams
- environmental damage, monetary expense
- work
- force through distance
- largest concentration of forest
- Amazon River basin
- strip
- exposes entire surface cheaply and quickly
- non point source
- polluiton diffused, no specific starting point
- Superfund
- immediate response aimed at the rapid containment, clean up, and remediation of abundant toxic sites
- subsidence
- settling or sinking of ground surface due to withdrawing large amounts of groundwater
- Coal
- 200 years left
- underground
- ancient, cabon monoxide, canaries
- open
- extract large beds of metal ores
- CA and TX
- lead the US in wind power