Coal Ash
One cause of coal ash
What is lung cancer, birth defects, cancer, or behavioral problems?
Two types of pollution caused by factory farms
what is...
water pollution and air pollution
The definition of an oxygen dead zone
What is they are areas in the ocean of such low oxygen concentration that animal life suffocates and dies?
The gas that is overwhelmingly responsible for climate change
What is greenhouse gases?
What CCR stand for
What is coal combustion residuals?
One way that waste/pollutants enters the water stream
what is...
runoff
The animal is the most effected by oxygen dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay
The result of global warming and glacier loss in the ocean
What are rising sea levels?
Two types of coal ash mentioned
What is fly ash and bottom ash?
Another name for a factory farm
What is...
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
or CAFO
One of the three main causes of oxygen dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay
What is waste treatment plants, runoff from farmland, or pollution?
The percent of scientists who agree that climate change is caused by human action
What is 95%
Two heavy metals that can be found in contaminated drinking water due to a fail of coal ash disposal
What are mercury, lead, or arsenic?
A nutrient or bacteria that is present in waste
what is...
ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, methane, phosphorus, E.coli bacteria, salmonella
The abundant substance do excess nutrients cause in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay
What is algae?
What is 400,000,000 tons?
The amount of times above the allowable standard of drinking water arsenic was present in the example
What is 149 times?
The absence of this causes waste to break down and form dangerous gases
what is...
oxygen
The number of cubic miles in the largest dead zone in 2017
What is 1.8 cubic miles?
The way that climate naturally changes over time
What is orbita variation?