Sustainable Design Quiz

An apparatus for burning waste material, esp. industrial waste, at high temperatures. 

Convert waste into reusable material.

Materials or substances that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain. 

The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another. 

A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. 

Proper disposition of a discarded material according to local environmental guidelines or laws.

The change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over decades. 

All inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.

The way in which a person or group lives.

A method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted.

The state of great comfort and extravagant living.

The fact of being required or indispensable.

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. 

The philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment and services ecologically.

The disposal of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering with soil.

A dunghill or refuse heap.