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C10: Quiz 2
C10: Quiz 2
When answering the questions in this quiz, try not to look at the later questions.
1) A life cycle assessment looks at the total impact that a product has on the envioronment during the whole course of its life. What are the 4 main aspects to a life cycle assessment?
2) I carry out an LCA on a car.
a) Give two examples of values that will be quite easy to quantify.
b) Give two examples of values that will be quite hard to quantify.
3) If two different assessors carried out LCAs for a product, would you expect their assessments to be the same? Explain why the LCAs would or would not be the same.
4) When looking at LCAs, why do we need to look at who wrote the LCA?
5) The first part in an LCA is the extracting and processing of the raw materials. Give 2 things that we need to consider in this section.
6)
a) Sometimes products are disposed of in landfill sites. Give 2 impacts of disposing of a product in a landfill site?
b) We can reduce the effects of disposing of products in landfill sites by doing two things beginning with R. What are these two things that we can do beginning with R?
1) A life cycle assessment looks at the total impact that a product has on the envioronment during the whole course of its life. What are the 4 main aspects to a life cycle assessment?
2) I carry out an LCA on a car.
a) Give two examples of values that will be quite easy to quantify.
b) Give two examples of values that will be quite hard to quantify.
3) If two different assessors carried out LCAs for a product, would you expect their assessments to be the same? Explain why the LCAs would or would not be the same.
4) When looking at LCAs, why do we need to look at who wrote the LCA?
5) The first part in an LCA is the extracting and processing of the raw materials. Give 2 things that we need to consider in this section.
6)
a) Sometimes products are disposed of in landfill sites. Give 2 impacts of disposing of a product in a landfill site?
b) We can reduce the effects of disposing of products in landfill sites by doing two things beginning with R. What are these two things that we can do beginning with R?