MGP #2 REVISED

1.       What are the 5 main ways technology has harmed the environment?

2.       Name 3 pollutions that’ll harm the environment.

3.       Are metals like gold, consider non-renewable resources or renewable resources?

4.       Explain what “technotrash” items are.

5.       True or False

Clearing land where animals used to live to build factories can affect the environment’s natural cycle.

6.       Toxic is a type of health hazards, toxic can cause ______ and technology addiction can lead to ______ and ______.

7.       What are the 2 carbons produced by humans?

8.       What are greenhouse gases? Over the last century, greenhouse gases have increased due to _______ and that’s contributing to ______ ______.

9.       True or False

Cars, airplanes, and power plants/ factories release carbon remissions in the atmosphere.

10.   What will happen when you throw away old computers in regular trash cans?

11.   When toxins began to leak out what are the toxins harming?

12.   What country banned ” technotrash”  from landfills?

13.   What are some of the affects these toxins can cause to your body?

14.   What is the number one thing everyone can do to protect our environment?

15.   Name a few positive impacts about technology that has improved the environment.

                                            Answers

1.       Pollution, consuming resources, waste, disrupting ecology, and health hazards.

2.       Air, heat, and water

3.       Non-renewable resources

4.       Electronic waste- any broken or unwanted electrical device and is the most common type of waste

5.       True

6.       Cancer ; obesity and carpal tunnel syndrome

7.       Dioxide and monoxide

8.       Gases in the atmosphere that trap and reflect heat and radiation back to the planet’s surface. Carbon emissions; global warming

9.       True

10.   It’ll end up in landfills and the toxins inside the computers will start to leak out  

11.   The water we drink, plants we eat, and the animals that live in the area

12.   Europe

13.   Nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and even cancer

14.   Recycle

15.Help use develop and produce new materials, help us create smarter technologies, paperless communication, and help companies reduce





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Website title- Green Computing
Article title- How technology can harm the environment 
Date accessed- March 09, 2014