1.5 Needs, Wants and Waste Flashcards
What are Natural Resources?
They are materials found in nature that humans used to meet their needs and wants.
What is a Renewable resource?
It means it can be replaced.
What does Sustainable resource mean?
They are resources that can be used indefinitely.
What are Non-renewable resources?
They are resources that cannot be replaced as quickly as they are used.
What is a Need?
It is something that you cannot survive without.
What is a Want?
It is something that you do not need to survive.
What is an Ecological footprint?
It is a measure of the impact a person has on the environment based on how much land you use, how much water you use, how much energy you use.
What are the 4 R’s?
Reduce, reuse, recycle, recovery and landfill.
What do each of the 4 R’s mean?
Reduce: To make less waste.
Reuse: To use it again.
Recycle: To make something else out of something used.
Recovery: Recovering the energy from waste.
Landfill: To dispose of the waste.
Rank Recycle, Landfill, Reduce, Reuse, Recovery from best to worst.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recovery, Landfill.
List some types of waste.
Household garbage, Carbon dioxide, Nuclear waste, Electronic waste.
List some types of Loss of Habitat.
Logging, Urbanization, Agriculture, Endangered and Extinct species.
List some types of Climate Change.
Temperatures rising, Greenhouse gases/Pollution, Flooding/Ocean levels rising.
