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?
This class of chemicals increases the risk of a human developing cancer.
What are carcinogens?
This treaty called for a ban on CFCs and solved the hole in the ozone layer problem.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
This is the primary source of nitrous oxides in the atmosphere.
What are vehicle tailpipes and agricultural fertilizers?
This is McKeon's college sport (name 1 of 3).
What is ultimate frisbee, disc golf, and racquetball?
This type of bacteria breaks down organic waste in an aeration tank.
What is aerobic bacteria?
These two heavy metals are common neurotoxins, known to impair learning, cause brain damage, immune system, and other nervous system disorders.
What are mercury and lead?
Tropospheric ozone causes any number of these specific human health concerns (name two).
Respitory illness, eye / throat irritation, exacerbation of bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, etc.
This is main component in industrial smog.
What is sulfur dioxide?
This is the year Mr. McKeon first dunked a basketball.
What is never?
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)
These are the other two majors Mr. McKeon considered prior to Earth and Space Science (name one).
What is Physics + Dietetics and Nutrition?
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)
This useful building material was banned after it was linked to mesothelioma.
What is asbestos?
This is the name of Mr. McKeon's group chat with Mr. Young, Broyles, Dzienny, and Hodges.
What is Danger Boyz (recently updated to Danger Husbandz)?
These are the two primary methods of disinfection prior to effluent discharge.
What is chlorination and uv radiation?
This is the syndrome associated with cleaning chemicals and plastic fumes from newly built or renovated housing.
What is sick building syndrome?
The catalytic converter is required by law under the Clean Air Act to be installed in every US internal combustion vehicle muffler, and it's primary purpose is to...
What is convert NOx, CO, and HC into H2O, CO2, and N2 using a metal such as platinum to catalyze
This common cosmetic and plastic stregthener is a harmful endocrine disruptor and has a silent "ph" at the beginning.
What are phthalates?
Since 2014, Mr. McKeon has eaten a salad for lunch at school, and these are the components (list 4 specific ingredients).
What is spinach / arugala, cheery / grape tomatoes, gorganzola / cheddar cheese, trail mix, and goddess dressing?