Pollution 1
What acts like a shield that protects the Earth?
Atmosphere
What is Smog?
Smoke & Fog
What is one cause of indoor air pollution?
Smoking or Chemical cleaners
What is another word for surroundings?
Environment
What gets trapped by the sun in our atmosphere?
Heat
What caused the Taj Mahal to become discolored?
Acid rain
What is one human activity that causes endangered animals?
Deforestation, poaching, hunting, plastics
What is smog?
Smoke & Fog
What type of greenhouse gas do cows fart and burp out?
Methane
What are some ways that plastic can harm the environment?
Mining, factories
What is the introduction of harmful materials in our environment?
Pollution
What is the big area of garbage in the ocean (that we learned about) called?
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Explain how the greenhouse effect works.
Greenhouse gases causes a layer (like a jacket) to form in the atmosphere which traps more heat in.
What is it called when there is an injection of a fluid at high pressure into an underground rock formation to open fissures and allow trapped gas or crude oil to flow through a pipe to a wellhead at the surface.
Fracking
What is air?
Mixture of gases and dust particles that surround the earth
What describes how material are able to break down over time by decomposers?