This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Environment > Solid Waste – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Solid Waste Quiz 11 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is a liquid found in landfills resulting from dissolved garbage? A) Rubbish. B) Ocean gyre. C) Methane. D) Leachate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leachate. 2. What is a Superfund Site? A) A place where children are exposed to a lot of toxins. B) A place with a lot of contamination. C) A location designated by the EPA requiring major toxic cleanup. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A location designated by the EPA requiring major toxic cleanup. 3. What is a solution that reduces impacts of human activities on the environment and reduces solid waste? A) More landfills. B) Recycling. C) More incinerators. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recycling. 4. Known also as Superfund. It was passed in 1980 in response to some alarming and decidely unacceptable hazardous waste practices and management going on in the 1970s. A) CERCLA. B) Atomic Energy Act. C) Resource Conservation Recovery Act. D) The Montreal Protocol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CERCLA. 5. Measured on the pH scale. A) Dissolved oxygen. B) Turbidity. C) Salinity. D) Acidity. E) Hardness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acidity. 6. Turning aluminum soda cans into more aluminum soda cans is an example of A) Primary Recycling. B) Secondary Recycling. C) Landfilling. D) Life Cycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary Recycling. 7. From 1970 to the present, the percentage of waste that is recycled has A) Increased from 6.6% to 28%. B) Decreased from 28% to 6.6%. C) Decreased from 28% to 19.6%. D) Remained the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increased from 6.6% to 28%. 8. What is one of the first priorities of Integrated Waste Management? A) Incinerate waste. B) Use less of a harmful product. C) Treat waste to reduce toxicity. D) Reuse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use less of a harmful product. 9. Which is a disadvantage of burning solid waste in an incinerator? A) Incinerating removes toxic materials from waste. B) Produces carbon dioxide gas that is released into the atmosphere. C) Converts garbage into electricity. D) Adds more waste to landfills. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Produces carbon dioxide gas that is released into the atmosphere. 10. Which of the following is a direct effect of recycling? A) More water is polluted. B) Less trash goes into landfills. C) More money is paid. D) Less e-waste is produced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less trash goes into landfills. 11. An energy transformation occurs and results in increased disorder. A) Potential energy. B) The second law of thermodynamics. C) First law of thermodynamics. D) Heat flow. E) Kinetic energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The second law of thermodynamics. 12. Water from rainfall drips through a landfill. The water collects poisons, bacteria, and dirt as it falls through the landfill. New landfills have an thick plastic liner and complex bottom layers to trap water containing runoff contaminants from the landfill. This water is called ..... A) Leachate. B) Black water. C) Leachment. D) Brown water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leachate. 13. Which item should you NOT put in your compost pile? A) Wood chips. B) Plastic. C) Food scraps. D) Autumn leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plastic. 14. Method of detoxifying hazardous waste by electrically producing high temperatures that vaporizes trash in the absence of oxygen A) Incineration. B) Vaporization. C) Pyrolysis. D) Plasma gasification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plasma gasification. 15. Plastics are made from A) Glass. B) Paper. C) Petroleum. D) Sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Petroleum. 16. Where does most waste end up? A) Incineration. B) Recycled. C) Landfills. D) Litter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Landfills. 17. Enriches the soil A) Green plastic. B) Compost. C) Recycling. D) Source reduction. E) Photodegradable plastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compost. 18. Why is a metal lining in a landfill a bad idea? A) The metal could corrode due to the possibly acidic leachate. B) The metal will probably crack due to the heat of the sun. C) The metal will melt due to the heat from burning the trash. D) The metal will bend when too much trash is put in it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The metal could corrode due to the possibly acidic leachate. 19. Which one of the following hazardous-waste disposal methods typically stores wastes below the groundwater level? A) A secure landfill. B) A deep-well injection. C) An on-site surface impoundment. D) An electro-static precipitator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A deep-well injection. 20. Which type of waste can be mostly reused? A) Industrial. B) Municipal. C) Mining. D) Agricultural. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agricultural. 21. How much plastic is produced every year? A) 300 million tons. B) 10 thousand tons. C) 5 billion tons. D) 7 tons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 300 million tons. 22. Exemplified by ticks feeding on a deer. A) Predation. B) Parasitism. C) Commensalism. D) Mutualism. E) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasitism. 23. Most of the municipal solid waste in the world is A) Stored in landfills. B) Recycled. C) Incinerated. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stored in landfills. 24. Solid-waste management is defined as A) The Sorting, collecting, treating, and disposing. B) The Sorting, storage, treating, and disposing. C) The collecting, Sorting, treating, and disposing. D) The collecting, treating, and disposing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The collecting, Sorting, treating, and disposing. 25. Waste that comes from production of consumer goods, mining, agriculture, and fossil fuel extraction. A) Solid Waste. B) Industrial Waste. C) Hazardous Waste. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industrial Waste. 26. Organic matter in landfills is a problem primarily because? A) It produces methane gas. B) It produces excessive heat. C) As it breaks down it can dissolve the containment. D) There is a high risk of toxic leaching. E) It contains bacteria that spreads disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It produces methane gas. 27. Which of the following disease is caused by waste material thrown in open areas? A) Cholera. B) Plague. C) Typhoid. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 28. Diseases caused by air pollution include: A) Lung cancer. B) Respiratory illness. C) Skin diseases. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 29. Which is part of the cradle to cradle concept proposed by William McDonough? A) Planning for disassembling materials during design. B) Minimized waste generation during manufacturing. C) Increased use of composite materials. D) Mimicking the natural world in the production of hard materials. E) A, B, C, D and recently, upcycling waste materials too. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A, B, C, D and recently, upcycling waste materials too. 30. Wastes that has substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. A) Urban waste. B) Industrial waste. C) Hazardous waste. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hazardous waste. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesSolid Waste Quiz 1Solid Waste Quiz 2Solid Waste Quiz 3Solid Waste Quiz 4Solid Waste Quiz 5Solid Waste Quiz 6Solid Waste Quiz 7Solid Waste Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books