Nuclear
Air
Water
Vocab
100
Nuclear fission involves creating power. How do we create power this was?
An unstable nucleus (like uranium) is bombarded with a neutron.
100
What are the two components of ground-level ozone?
VOCs and NOx
100
What are three dependent water quality variables we tested outside?
Temperature, nitrates, pH, salinity, turbidity
100
This type of well uses groundwater pressure to supply humans at the surface.
Artesian well!
200
What are the ADVANTAGES of nuclear power?
efficient, doesn't produce greenhouse gas emissions, fuel can be reused, more reliable than wind or solar
200
The combination of light with ozone's component parts creates a free radical oxygen, in a reaction type known as...?
Photochemical reactions
200
Water moves away from the ___________ and towards the ______________.
Ridge, valley; OR upstream, downstream
200
When pollution collects in a food chain and affects the predators more than it affects the producers or primary consumers.
Biomagnification
300
What are the DISADVANTAGES of nuclear power?
Building nuclear power looks a lot like building nuclear bombs, waste is radioactive for 1000s of years, expensive to start up
300
Mercury is released from fossil fuel combustion in power plants. It is difficult to fully stop mercury pollution because...
People need power/transportation; mercury is naturally occurring
300
Aquifers and groundwater recharge through a process called...
infiltration
300
This part of the government is in charge of setting and policing limits on pollution.
Environmental Protection Agency.
400
What is the halflife of this nuclear waste product?
5 years
400
Daily double: Write a sentence or two to describe when we would use wet scrubbing and how it works.
Gas with Mercury, NOx, or HCl contaminants are piped into a chamber where they are sprayed. The spray includes bromine or chlorine species to bind with the polluted gas, and the pollutant solution is oxidized.
400
Write a sentence: Milwaukee is downstream from Menomonee Falls, connected by the Menomonee River. What is the effect of runoff pollution in Menomonee Falls? Use 3+ vocab words from your study guide.
Pollution that runs off will collect in the Menomonee River because water flows downhill. This means that both towns' water is affected by pollution at one source in the watershed.
400
Greenhouse gasses, VOC, NOx, mercury vapors, and regular old dust are examples of this.
Emissions