Oil Spills
The property that tell you how much mass "stuff" is packed in a certain amount of space.
What is density?
Turning this off when brushing your teeth can save clean water.
What is the faucet?
Where the water is deep underground.
What is an aquifer?
The 3 R's
What are reduce, reuse, recycle?
% of plastics that actually get recycled.
What is 9%
The tool acts like a fence to contain oil spills.
What is a boom?
When people pour oil or paint down the drain, it can pollute this type of water.
What is ground water?
These form where the water leaks out of the ground.
What is an oasis?
Four main types of waste disposal.
What are landfills, incineration, recycling, and composting?
True or False: Putting dirty or wrong items in the recycling bin can ruin the whole batch.
What is true?
3 methods of oil spill clean up.
What is skimming, absorption, and dispersants?
This measures if a liquid is acidic, basic, or neutral.
What is pH?
The measure of how much volume/space exists in soil.
What is porosity?
Food scraps and yard waste can be turned into this nutrient-rich soil.
What is compost?
This floating pile of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean is larger than Texas.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
2 groups that can be impacted by an oil spill
What are wildlife, fishermen, the community, the oil company?
% of the water usable by humans on Earth.
What is 1%?
This measures how easily water flows through soil/
What is permeability?
Plastic in landfills can take this long to break down: years, decades, or centuries?
What are centuries?
Plastics are made from this nonrenewable resource.
What is petroleum? (oil)
Part of a bird that loses its waterproofing when covered in oil.
What are feathers?
a measurement of the cleanliness and healthiness of water.
What is water quality?
A sponge and a brick might both be porous, but only the sponge has high __.
What is permeability?
The liquid that drains from garbage and can pollute the soil is called this.
What is leachate?
These tiny plastic pieces are formed when larger plastics break down.
What are microplastics?