Water Pollution
Air Pollution
Laws
Consequences
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100
This chemical is both an air and water pollutant and causes ocean acidification and greenhouse effect
What is carbon dioxide
100
This is the chemical formula for ozone
What is O3
100
This law sets maximum amounts of allowable water pollution
What is The Clean Water Act
100
Thermal pollution causes this chemical to become less abundant for living things in a body of water.
What is oxygen
100
This term refers to the oxygen needed or consumed by biotic factors in an aquatic ecosystem
What is BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)
200
This term refers to a single location where pollution enters an aquatic ecosystem
What is point source pollution
200
This compound, when released in large concentrations, can contribute to "acid rain"
What is nitrogen oxides or sulfur dioxide
200
This law regulates the clean up of 'Superfund' sites
CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)
200
This is the material that is left over after minerals have been extracted from ore
Tailings or gangue
200
This term refers to any pollution or circumstance that causes a body of water to increase in temperature
What is thermal pollution
300
Refers to wide scale, landscape area pollution usually associated with run-off from many locations
What is non-point source pollution
300
What is the "silent killer" found in car exhaust
What is Carbon monoxide
300
This law governs the regulation of the six criteria pollutants
What is The Clean Air Act
300
These chemicals are both greenhouse gases and an ozone depletors
What are CFCs
300
The metric prefixes for 1000 and 1/1000th
kilo and milli
400
This occurs when there is an unnatural excess of nutrients in an aquatic ecosytem
What is cultural eutrophication
400
This term refers to smoke and debris caused by coal burning and diesel burning
What is particulate air pollution
400
This law sets maximum allowable contaminate levels for pollutants in drinking water, with an emphasis on ground water regulations
What is Safe Drinking Water Act
400
Ocean acidification is caused when these two chemicals combine
What is carbon dioxide and water
400
This concept explains that as the atmosphere warms, greenhouse gasses become more abundant, which in turn causes the atmosphere to warm even more
What is a positive feedback loop
500
This term describes a process whereby larger objects are allowed to settle out of waste water and removed
What is primary sewage treatment
500
This substance forms when light interacts with volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides
What is photochemical smog
500
This incident brought national attention to toxic waste in groundwater and drinking water
What is Love Canal
500
Coal mining and burning release these two dangerous elements
What are murcury and lead.
500
This is the largest source of water pollution
Runoff
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