Pollution
Acids/Bases
Water
Anything Goes
HodgePodge
100

Name at least 2 greenhouse gases.

What are carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour, nitrogen oxides and ozone. 

100
The color of the litmus paper in a base.
What is blue
100
Dissolved oxygen in water should be high or low to support life?
What is high.
100

The 3 most common nutirents in agricultural fertilizer. 

What are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium? 

100

A variable that causes something to change. 

What is a manipulated or independent variable?

200

2 Natural causes of greenhouse gases to be released into the atmosphere.

What are volcanoes and forest fires.

200
A technology used by industry to remove SO2 gases from their emissions.
What is a scrubber.
200

Name at least two items that water conservationists would test for to determine water quality.

What is acidity, dissolved oxygen, heavy metals, pesticides, salts, plant nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus)

200
Solution to reduce the effects of acidity in lakes.
What is lime. (A Base)
200

What are the three R's?

reuse, reduce, recycle

300

Term for the human activites which have increased the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere leading to global warming.

What is enhanced greenhouse effect or air pollution. 

300

The term when an acid is added to a base to create water and a salt (to create subtance close to pH 7).

What is neutralization?

300

A type of insect that is sensitive to changes in pH in the water.

What are mayflies, caddisflies and stoneflies or "bioindicator macroinvertebrate"

300

Name at least two of the four types of organic molecules.

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

300

The type of nutrients that always contain carbon. 

What are organic nutrients?

400

Name at least two side effects of global warming due to greenhouse effect.

What is coastal flooding, melting of ice caps, more violent storms, more droughts,....

400
When a solution is a pH of 2, it is called
What is acidic.
400

Term to describe the accumulation of toxic pollutants through the food chain in water.

What is biomagnification

400

This is a method of controlling pest populations naturally, without the use of toxic chemicals.

What is bilogical control?

400

Nutrients required by plants in large quantities.a chemical element (e.g., potassium, magnesium, calcium) required in large amounts for plant growth and development.

What are macronutrients?

500

Any material, or form of energy, that will cause harm to a living organism

What is a pollutant? 

500
pH 5 is how many times more acidic than pH 9?
What is 10 000x.
500
Term for Adding lots of water to a pollutant to decrease its concentration.
What is dilution.
500
The breakdown of organic molecules by bacteria, fungi.
What is biodegradation?
500

The most common element in the human body. 

What is oxygen?

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