Industry that involves building and repairing structures
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What is a demolition industry?
Industry that involves the tearing down of buildings
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What is commercial waste?
Waste produced by businesses
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What is Household wate?
Waste produced by households
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What is industrial waste?
Waste produced by manufacturing industries
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What is landfill?
The disposal of waste by burying it underground?
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What is incineration?
The destruction of something through burning?
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What is recycling?
The process of converting wate into reusable materials
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What is anaerobic respiration?
The break down of organic matter by biological treatment
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What is composting?
Storing plant material so it decays, then added to soil to improve its quality
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What are consumers?
The people who have purchased goods
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What does it mean by exported?
Send to another country
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What does it mean by importing?
Bring goods into the country from abroad
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What does it mean by contamination?
The act of polluting something
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What is a linear waste system?
A simple step by step plan, where the rubbish is thrown away at the end
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What is a circular waste system?
Where repair, reuse and recycle is used to reduce waste
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What is Amey?
Amey waste services - the company who wants to build the incinerator.
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What is the energy from waste facility (EFW)?
A waste facility providing an alternative to landfill, which creates energy by burning waste
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What is it meant by sustainable?
A development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future developments
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What is the environment agency ?
The agency protects and improves the environment
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What are barracks?
A large group of buildings used to house soldiers
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What is it meant by a new town ?
A planned urban development
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What does Rural-Urban fringe mean?
The area at the edge of the city beside the countryside
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What does it mean by intrusive?
Something that causes disruption and annoyance
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What are residential areas?
An area where people live
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What is a waste hierarchy?
Ranks waste management options according to what is best for the environment
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What does CPRE stand for?
Council for the Preservation of Rural England
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What is a stakeholder?
People/ groups with an interest in an issue/ project/ area
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What is a brownfield site?
A site that has already been built on
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2 advantages of random sampling?
.Used with large sample populations
. Avoids bias
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2 disadvantages of random sampling?
.Can lead to poor representation of the overall population
. Practical constraints- time available and access
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2 advantages and 1 disadvantage of systematic sampling?
Advantages: It is straight forward and a good coverage of an area is easily achieved
Disadvantage: May exclude key sites
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What is a questionnaire?
A set of questions asked to others
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2 Advantages and 2 Disadvantages of a Questionnaire?
Advantages: Easy to create and easy to collate results
Disadvantage: Answers may be too broad and difficult to record and analyse. People may not want to answer your questions
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Why are pie charts used?
Used to represent percentages
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2 advantages and disadvantages of pie charts?
Advantages: Easy to draw; Easy to understand and interpret
Disadvantages: Calculating the size of each section can be more difficult than a bar chart. Lots of segments can make it difficult to analyse
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What are scatter graphs used for?
Used to compare 2 sets of data
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2 advantage and 2 disadvantages of scatter graphs?
Advantages: Easy to construct, shows the correlation between data
Disadvantages: Needs a large data set, almost impossible to label data points
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When are bar graphs used?
Used to show absolute values
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2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of bar graphs?
Advantages: Easy to construct and understand
Disadvantages: Can be too simplistic. Should only be used with discrete data
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What are line graphs used for?
Used to show continuous data
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2 advantages and disadvantages to line graphs?
Advantages: Easy to construct and understand. Anomalies are easy to identify
Disadvantages: Can be time consuming to construct. Often require additional information to be useful
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What are proportional symbol map used for?
Used to show located data
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2 advantages and disadvantages to proportional symbol map?
Advantages: Sophisticated technique. Good visual representation of data
Disadvantages: If there isn't a scale, it is difficult to calculate an actual value. Needs a correct scale otherwise it can be difficult to read
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What are isoline maps used for?
Used to areas of equal values
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2 advantages and disadvantages of isoline maps?
Advantages: Good visual representation of data. Easy to show patterns and trends.
Disadvantages: Can be difficult to construct. Small lines and numbers can be difficult to read
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What are triangular graphs used for?
Used to show relationship between 3 pieces of data
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2 advantages and disadvantages of triangular graphs?
Advantages: Easy to compare data. 3 pieces of data can be compared at once
Disadvantages: Data must be in % and it can be difficult to read and construct
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What are choropleth maps used for?
Used to show values for different locations
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2 advantages and disadvantages of choropleth maps?
Advantages: Visually effective and easy to see patterns
Disadvantages: Time consuming to construct. Doesn't show variations within one area
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What is a demolition industry?
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Industry that involves the tearing down of buildings
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