Wastewater Treats
Screens, grit chambers, and settling tanks are used during this step in waste water treatment (choose primary, secondary, or tertiary).
What is primary?
H2SO4 is a key player in acid deposition, making is this type of pollutant (choose "primary" or "secondary").
What is secondary? (sulfuric acid)
This federal act allows the US government to regulate and monitor air quality and pollution.
What is the clean air act?
This is the primary source of nitrous oxides in the atmosphere.
What are vehicle tailpipes and agricultural fertilizers?
This type of bacteria breaks down organic waste in an aeration tank.
What is aerobic bacteria?
This toxic gas is invisible, can cause sudden death when inhaled, and is most concerning in developing countries where indoor wood stoves are common.
What is carbon monoxide? (CO)
Tropospheric ozone causes any number of these specific human health concerns (name one).
Respitory illness, eye / throat irritation, exacerbation of bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, etc.
This is main component in industrial smog.
What is sulfur dioxide?
Sludge is a byproduct of wastewater treatment that can be recycled as this product.
What is agricultural fertilizer?
Prolonged dioxin exposure can mimic hormones, which classifies this component in many single use plastics as...
What is an endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC)?
This smog trapping phenomena occurs when a warm air mass is trapped between two cold air masses.
What is temperature inversion?
This secondary pollutant is notorious for negatively impacting crop yields and eye irritation after it forms in photochemical smog.
What are peroxyacyl nitrates? (PANs)
After disinfection, fully treated effluent is discharged here.
What is surface water?
EDCs cause many human health concerns including (name 2)...
What are reproductive issues, low birth weight in infants, obesity, diabietes, and cancer?
Air fresheners, paint, and many cleaning supplies contain this photochemical smog ingredient.
What are volatile organic compounds? (VOCs)
Lung cancer is typically associated with this harmful gas that is stored in soil and rock layers beneath home foundations.
What is radon? (Rn)