EXAM 2 INTRO TO ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
RCRA - Correct Answers -program to assist communities with addressing their
concerns about environmental and health issues related to waste management
CERCLA - Correct Answers -law to address releases or potential releases of hazardous
substances into the environment
solid waste - Correct Answers -any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater
treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, and other discarded material, resulting
from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations.
integrated solid waste management - Correct Answers -A comprehensive waste
prevention, recycling, composting, and disposal program.
generation - Correct Answers -process of producing waste materials as a byproduct of
human activities, including industrial production, consumption, and disposal practices
waste handling and storage - Correct Answers -waste management, supervision over
waste management and aftercare of waste management facilities
collection - Correct Answers -process of gathering and transporting waste materials
from their point of origin to a designated location for further treatment or disposal
transfer and transport - Correct Answers -transfer i when a waste is moved from vehicle
to vehicle and involves the whole movement of waste from its origin to its destination
disposal - Correct Answers -process of collection, processing, and recycling or
deposition of the waste materials of human society
Dissolved Oxygen (DO) - Correct Answers -the amount of oxygen in the water, that
varies with reoxygenation, deoxygenation and organic waste concentrations
suspended - Correct Answers -disposed through the bulk of a solid. Removed by
sedimentation or filtration
colloidal - Correct Answers -mixture in which very small particles of one substance are
distributed evenly throughout another substance but won't settle out completely.
Removed by centrifuge
ENGINEERING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
RCRA - Correct Answers -program to assist communities with addressing their
concerns about environmental and health issues related to waste management
CERCLA - Correct Answers -law to address releases or potential releases of hazardous
substances into the environment
solid waste - Correct Answers -any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater
treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, and other discarded material, resulting
from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations.
integrated solid waste management - Correct Answers -A comprehensive waste
prevention, recycling, composting, and disposal program.
generation - Correct Answers -process of producing waste materials as a byproduct of
human activities, including industrial production, consumption, and disposal practices
waste handling and storage - Correct Answers -waste management, supervision over
waste management and aftercare of waste management facilities
collection - Correct Answers -process of gathering and transporting waste materials
from their point of origin to a designated location for further treatment or disposal
transfer and transport - Correct Answers -transfer i when a waste is moved from vehicle
to vehicle and involves the whole movement of waste from its origin to its destination
disposal - Correct Answers -process of collection, processing, and recycling or
deposition of the waste materials of human society
Dissolved Oxygen (DO) - Correct Answers -the amount of oxygen in the water, that
varies with reoxygenation, deoxygenation and organic waste concentrations
suspended - Correct Answers -disposed through the bulk of a solid. Removed by
sedimentation or filtration
colloidal - Correct Answers -mixture in which very small particles of one substance are
distributed evenly throughout another substance but won't settle out completely.
Removed by centrifuge
