Visualizing Environmental Science

Peter Essick / Aurora Photos Managing Hazardous Waste 415 CASE STUDY same time, smart phones, tablets, mp3 players, and other sm ...

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416 CHAPTER 16 Solid and Hazardous Waste © D A Barnes/Alamy © Radius Images/Alamy materials. Recycling conserves natural resourc ...

PROCESS DIAGRAM (^1) Heated crude oil is pumped into fractionation tower. (^2) Fractionation tower separates crude oil products ...

Ulrich Doering/Alamy Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 417 What is happening in this picture? This clothing market in Tan ...

Oil and Natural Gas 425 Double-hulled tanker Insulated storage tanks Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas Oil and natural gas deposit ...

Line represents the approximate boundary of the original pond Original pond 17 Nonrenewable Energy Resources COAL AND THE ENVIRO ...

426426 OiOill impoimporrtsts (in millionmetrictons, 20100 ) The use and availability of primary energy resources are unequally d ...

419 Emory River 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1966 1976 1986 Year 1996 2006 2009 Coal consumption (million ...

Oil and Natural GasOil and Natural Gas 427427 nergy enables us tocook our food, heat our homes, move about our planet,and run in ...

420 CHAPTER 17 Nonrenewable Energy Resources © Jeremy Horner/Corbis *1 gigajoule = 1 billion joules Per person commercial energy ...

428 CHAPTER 17 Nonrenewable Energy Resources pipelines or on the ocean in tanker ships. Natural gas leaks, while rare, can lead ...

Coal 421 Peter Essick/Aurora Photos Coal LEARNING OBJECTIVES Distinguish between surface mining and subsurface mining. Summariz ...

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Melissa Farlow/NG Image Collection drainage from such mines, along with the removal of top- soil, which was buried or washed awa ...

430 CHAPTER 17 Nonrenewable Energy Resources desert around the burning oil wells. In 2001 Kuwait began a massive remediation pro ...

Oil and Natural Gas 423 Will & Deni McIntyre/©Corbis oxides and removes sulfur from the coal. It produces more heat from a g ...

Nuclear Energy 431 PROCESS DIAGRAM There are two different nu- clear reactions that release en- ergy: fission and fusion. In nuc ...

PROCESS DIAGRAM (^1) Heated crude oil is pumped into fractionation tower. (^2) Fractionation tower separates crude oil products ...

432 CHAPTER 17 Nonrenewable Energy Resources Jack Fletcher/NG Image Collection Patrick Landmann/Photo Researchers b. The uranium ...