What's for Dinner?
A simple sugar that cannot be further hydrolyzed
What is glucose/fructose?
A specific type of pesticide that kills rodents.
What is rodenticide?
The name of a material that absorbs or captures sulfur dioxide in a scrubber.
What is a sorbent?
The element that is required for bacteria to undergo aerobic biodegradation.
What is oxygen?
Living organisms that act as indicators for good or bad water quality.
What are biological indicators?
A type of fat that is solid at room temperature
What are saturated fats?
The term for pollutants that accumulate in the environment over time.
What are persistent pollutants?
What is carbon dioxide?
The use of living organisms, such as ladybugs or parasitic wasps, to remove pests.
What is biological control?
The stage in sewage treatment in which the effluent is mixed with bacteria-rich sludge.
What is the secondary treatment?
The mineral responsible for blood pressure and fluid regulation in the body.
What is sodium?
A type of pollution that occurs when power plants dump warm water into nearby aquatic systems.
What is thermal pollution?
The process of pouring powdered calcium carbonate into acidified bodies of water.
What is liming?
The method of using living organisms to break down complex, toxic substances into simple, non-toxic ones.
What is bioremediation?
The liquid that collects at the bottom of the landfill.
What is a leachate?
The vitamin responsible for a healthy immune system and healthy teeth.
A chemical that was banned in the mid-1980s for creating a hole in the ozone layer.
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
A chemical that wet scrubbers spray overtop heated sulfur dioxide.
What is calcium oxide (lime)?
The name of a machine that increases the rate of biodegradation by increasing the contact rate between bacteria and substrate.
What is a bioreactor?
A form of secondary sewage treatment in which a chain of decomposing organisms extract organic materials from the effluent.
What is a trickling bed?
Polypeptide chains arranged side by side, forming long, waterproof filaments.
What are fibrous proteins?
A phenomenon that occurs when snow, containing plant nutrients, melts into nearby aquatic systems.
What is spring runoff?
The name of the chemical that is used in aerosols, refrigerators, and air conditioning units (post-1980).
What are hydrofluorocarbons?
The process in which volatile organic contaminants are absorbed by plant roots and released through the leaves via transpiration.
What is phytovolatilization?
The tertiary sewage treatment that occurs when the effluent is passed through filters of activated carbon/charcoal.
What is adsorption?