Nutrients
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How Much?
Pollution
Recovery
100

All organic compounds have this in common

What is primarily made of Carbon (as well as Hydrogen and Oxygen)

100

The color of the litmus paper in an acid.

What is red

100

This is a unit of measurement to describe one piece of solute in 1,000,000,000 parts of solution

What is ppb or parts per billion

100

This is the term for when there in an increase in concentration of a pollutant in an organism

What is Bioaccumulation

100

You can find these in Car mufflers to help reduce harmful emission from combustion engines

What are catalytic converters

200

Name three of the four types of organic molecules.

What is carbohydrates, lipids, proteins (amino acids), nucleic acids (DNA, RNA).

200

The term when an acid is added to a base to create water and a salt.

What is neutralization.

200

This is the highest number on the pH scale

What is 14

200

Oil, grease, antifreeze, and metals washed from roads, parking lots and driveways would be a type of this pollution source

What is non-point source

200

This is a process of adding Calcium Carbonate to a field in order to help restore optimal pH for plants

What is liming?

300

Trace elements are defined as:

What are minerals that are required in small(er) amounts, approximately < 100 mg / day 

300

This is another term for a basic solution (Hint: Think periodic table)

What is alkaline

300

In toxicology this is a measure of the lethal dose of a toxin, radiation, or pathogen.

What is LD50

300

When too much Nitrogen and Sulfates are introduced into waterways, these may form which can cause significant harm to an aquatic ecosystem

What are algal blooms?

300

This is a a waste management technique that uses organisms to remove or neutralize pollutants from a contaminated site

What is bioremediation

400

These nutrients are used in many reactions, typically as catalysts or coenzymes

What are vitamins

400
A technology used by industry to remove SO2 gases from their emissions.
What is a scrubber.
400

This is a way to show the presence of a known substance in progressively weaker concentration to represent the idea of amount of toxins in our environment.

What is serial dilution

400

When these two gases mix with Carbon Dioxide, it can lead to Acid Precipitation

What are Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide?

400

This is a chamber for growing organisms such as bacteria or yeast under controlled conditions.

What is a bioreactor

500

A plant unable to grow strong stems and grows slowly may be missing this nutrient

What is Potassium?

500
pH 5 is how many times more acidic than pH 9?
What is 10 000x.
500

High quality water has approximately this much dissolved Oxygen

What is 8-10 ppm

500

At a consumption of only 0.000001 mg/kg, this toxin is one of the deadliest to humans

What is Botulin (will also accept Botulism)

500

These type of microbes remove chlorine from harmful chlorine-containing compounds, such as PCB’s and replace them with hydrogen atoms, which can be used as food

What are anaerobic bacteria.

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