Water Pollution
These are sources of pollution that are hard to track
What are non-point source?
This is the largest pollutant in the air
What is Carbon monoxide/Carbon dioxide?
These are areas of land that have a population <2,500
What are rural areas?
This is act of growing crops or raising livestock for profit
What is agriculture?
What are porosity and permeability?
These could take thousands of years to become clean if polluted
This regulates air pollutant emissions across the US
What is the Clean Air Act?
This is the process of removing a forest without replanting
What is deforestation?
This is the layer of soil in which most of the nutrients are contained
What is topsoil?
This was outlawed from being used as insulation for buildings in the 1970s
What is asbestos?
One of the main causes of eutrophication is our use of this
What are fertilizers?
This radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless gas can buildup in the basement of some homes
What is radon?
Hospitals, roads, schools, & fire stations are all examples of this
What is infrastructure?
This occurred during the 1930s as a result of bad agricultural practices
This toxin builds up in fish and is why you should not too much sushi
What is mercury?
This regulated the amount of pollution in our surface waters
What is the Clean Water Act?
This type of pollution will cause sea turtle hatchlings to run towards cities instead of the ocean
What is light pollution?
These are resources & benefits we can get from an ecosystem as well as how it maintains itself
What are ecosystem services?
We have started using wolf spiders and other animals to eat pests instead of using these
What are chemical pesticides?
This is the global amount of water locked away in glaciers and the ice caps
What is 2%
This is a buildup of toxins within animals as you go along the food chain
What is biomagnification?
What is acid rain?
These are large areas of land under federal protection and only allowed to be visited for their natural beauty
What are national parks?
These are places where large amounts of animals are squeezed into small spaces to grow them for profit
What are Concentrated/Commercial Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
Capsaicin and caffeine both evolved in plants to combat these
What are pests?