Soils
Soil component that increases its water holding capacity.
What is clay?
Tiny particles of this pollutant end up everywhere, including the ocean, soils, our blood streams (and brains)
What are microplastics?
Energy from degraded plant materials
What is coal?
Flint Michigan's Waters
What is lead pollution?
Common disinfectant added to drinking water.
What is chlorine?
What is extinction
Partially decomposed organic material layer
What is Humus?
Beloved in the stratosphere, but causes health problems and warming when in the troposphere.
What is Ozone?
Renewable that contributes the most energy to US power grid
What is wind power?
Fossil fuel burning contributes to this, the largest contributor to climate change
What is carbon pollution?
Natural water stored beneath the ground
What is an Aquifer?
The study of living organisms and their environments
What is Ecology?
Soil type containing sand silt and clay.
What is Loam?
Results in persistant pollutants building up to high concentrations in animals like Tuna and Bald Eagles.
What is Biomagnification (or the food chain)?
When designing a solar energy system, what two panel factors need to be considered?
What are Area and Efficiency?
Volcanoes and coal burning contribute to this, which also acidifies soils
What is sulfur pollution?
What are macroinvertebrates?
Reduced to low population numbers by DDT, but now fairly abundant.
What is a (bald) Eagle?
Loss of nutrients from soils by water
What is leaching?
Common component of indoor air pollution from furniture and mattresses.
What are VOC's (volatile organic carbons)?
With links to weapons proliferation, a controversial electricity source.
What is nuclear power?
Root cause of dead zones in coastal ocean areas?
What is nutrient pollution?
End result of solid waste processing at Deer Island Water Treatment Plant
What is fertilizer (or fertilizer pellets)?
Excess nutrients leading to plankton overgrowth and hypoxia
What is Eutrophication
Soil property enhanced by pore spaces within the soil, as well as sand.
What is Permeability?
BPA and Pthalates are examples of this class of toxin, a chemical that mimics hormones.
What are Endocrine disruptors?
No longer in "balance" -- Currently off by +2 watts/m2 and growing
What is Earth's radiation balance?
Increased risk of skin cancer due to UV radiation is related to historic emissions of this compound.
What is CFC pollution?
What power from coal, gas, nuclear, and hot-rock geothermal have in common.
What is a steam turbine?
Test for soil retention of anions such as NO3 and PO4
What is Eosin-Y?