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| What is cultivating plants and domesticating animals called? |
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| What technique did the Roman Empire use to help restore the soil? |
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| Fallow (rotating crops between fields and allowed fields to remain unplanted) |
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| Which group of people started companion planting? |
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| Loss of crop varieties leads to _______ erosion. |
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| As aquifers dry, what occurs when former water-filled places collapse under the weight of overlying rock and soil? |
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| Concentrated animal feeding operations |
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| Consumption and annual seafood catch has _______ since 1950. |
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| Concentrated animal feeding operations have reduced time to slaughter from 3 years to what? |
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| What is where the quantity of fish caught exceeds the productive capacity of a species and causes population decline and collapse? |
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| How much of the world's agricultural output is wasted? |
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| How much food is wasted in the United States? |
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| About how much garbage do people create a day? |
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| What is accounting for the environmental impacts of all the steps involving making, distributing, using, and disposing of a product? |
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| What are 2 gases created from decomposing garbage? |
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| Methane and carbon dioxide |
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| What is a disposal site that isolates and contains waste, manages its contents, and treats liquid and gas? |
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| What are the cons of sanitary landfills? |
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| They will eventually leak, give off carbon dioxide and methane gases, and they take up a lot of space |
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| What are places where the heat produced by incineration is converted to electricity? |
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| Waste-to-energy facilities |
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| What is a process that converts hazardous waste to less hazardous substances? |
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| What is the strategy of using waste and turning it into something useful? |
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| What are the pros of sanitary landfills? |
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| Good source of methane gas and prevent odors and unsightliness |
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| What are the cons of waste-to-energy facilities? |
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| Air pollution and costly to build and maintain |
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| What are pros to waste-to-energy? |
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| Creates energy, resource recovery, and less space is used |
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| How do waste-to-energy facilities work? |
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| Heat is produced by incineration and it's used to power a steam turbine that generates electricity |
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| What are the 3 main branches of environmental health? |
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| Epidemiology, toxicology, and public health |
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| What is the study of distribution and determinants of what causes diseases? |
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| What is the tendency of a chemical to evaporate into the air? |
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| What are gases that are released through the evaporation or the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels? |
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| Volatile organic compounds |
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| What type of radiation causes the most fatalities? |
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| Ultraviolet (UV) radiation |
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| What is a form of government in which only the central government directs policy? |
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| What's a form of government that give policy-making to state or provinces? |
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| Who owns 2 of the top 5 wind turbine manufacturers, the 6 largest solar panel manufacturers, and the largest lithium-ion battery manufacturer? |
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