Describe the materials that are recycled and how recycling is accomplished
What will be an ideal response?
"Paper and paperboard can be remade into pulp and reprocessed into recycled paper, cardboard, and other paper products; finely ground and sold as cellulose insulation; or shredded and composted."
"Most glass that is recycled is crushed, remelted, and made into new containers; a smaller amount is used in fiberglass or ‘glasphalt' for highway construction."
"Some forms of plastic can be remelted and fabricated into carpet fiber, outdoor wearing apparel, irrigation drainage tiles, building materials, and sheet plastic."
"Metals can be remelted and refabricated. Making aluminum from scrap aluminum saves up to 90% of the energy required to make aluminum from virgin ore." National recycling of aluminum saves energy, creates jobs, and reduces the trade deficit.
"Yard wastes can be composted to produce a humus soil conditioner."
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Discuss the branch of geology called stratigraphy and how the fundamental geologic principles are used to unravel
stratigraphic relationships. What will be an ideal response?
In regions of moderate to high rainfall, the top of a stream is the same as the ____
A)top of the zone of aeration B)top of the zone of saturation C)bottom of the aquifer D)bottom of the zone of aeration E)top of the water table
Human beings avoid all but which of these regions?
A) cold lands B) dry lands C) warm lands D) wet lands E) high lands
A concentration of heat in the mantle capable of producing magma is called a ________
A) magma melt B) plume C) hot spot D) basalt spout