Environmental Law

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The removal of toxic or other harmful substances from an environment. The substance may be harmful to wildlife, people, biodiversity, or the overall ecology.

• Decontamination

• Drainage

• Dredging

• Landfill

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The process of removing excess moisture from land - typically wetlands or saturated agricultural land.

• Decontamination

• Drainage

• Dredging

• Landfill

The removal of silt, mud, or other sold material from the bed of a body of water. Too much of this material can cause flooding.

• Dredging

• Decontamination

• Drainage

• Landfill

An area of land set aside for the disposal of waste - usually commercial or residential of non-toxic waste although in the case of where they might contain such, treatment may be required to prevent pollution.

• Landfill

• Decontamination

• Drainage

• Dredging

The amount of energy harnessed from the combustion process (burning fuel). Machinery, motor vehicles, and our homes are said to be energy efficient the more energy that is extracted from lower or smaller volumes of the source.

• Energy Efficiency

• Dredging

• Drainage

• Decontamination

protect the environment, create rules for how people can use natural resources, laws may regulate pollution, the use of natural resources, forest protection, mineral harvesting and animal and fish populations

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The process of reducing the quantity, intensity, or saturation of a pollutant or other harmful substance by way of treatment

• Abatement

• Conservation

• Biodegradable

• No idea

Any waste material produced as a byproduct of commercial or industrial activity.

• Brownfields site

• Commercial waste

• Conservation

• Abatement

Land that has been developed in the past but is now underused or disused

• Brownfields site

• Abatement

• Conservation

• Biodegradable

Used to describe substances and the ability of microorganisms (bacteria, algae) to break them down.

• Biodegradable

• Conservation

• Abatement

• Commercial waste