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PSSA Unit 12
Term | Definition |
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Biotechnology | The ways that humans apply biological concepts to produce products and provide services. |
Consumer | 1) Those organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms and their remains. 2) A person buying goods or services for personal needs or to use in the production of other goods for resale. |
Decomposer | An organism, often microscopic in size, that obtains nutrients by consuming dead organic matter, thereby making nutrients accessible to other organisms; examples of decomposers include fungi, scavengers, rodents and other animals. |
Engineering | The application of scientific, physical, mechanical and mathematical principles to design processes, products and structures that improve the quality of life. |
Ergonomical | Of or relating to the design of equipment or devices to fit the human body’s control, position, movement and environment |
Hazardous waste | A solid that, because of its quantity or concentration or its physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may cause or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated |
Incinerating | Burning to ashes; reducing to ashes. |
Nonpoint source pollution | Contamination that originates from many locations that all discharge into a location |
Point source pollution | Pollutants discharged from a single identifiable location |
Risk management | A strategy developed to reduce or control the chance of harm or loss to one’s health or life |
Waste Stream | The flow of (waste) materials from generation, collection and separation to disposal. |