ENVI 399 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Water Scarcity, Recycling, Life-Cycle Assessment
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The endurance of systems and processes, and sustainable development. Increased 20 fold in the past 50 years. 90% of all natural rubber comes from these trees in the rubber plantations of indonesia. Steel, aluminum and copper are the most common. Over a ton of natural resources are saved for every ton of glass recycled. One ton of carbon dioxide is reduced for every six tons of recycled container glass used in the manufacturing process. An area roughly equivalent of the size of greece of the worlds forests are cut down and converted to other land uses every year. Because 0k is "absolute zero", where the kinetic energy of a molecule is zero. At room temperature, almost all of the elements are _________. The weight of an object is the product of its mass and the acceleration of gravity. Force is the product of mass times acceleration which is usually expresed in newtons.
