Sources of Pollution, Human Impacts on Ecosystems and Endocrine Disruptors
The pollution produced from an entire suburban community.
What is non-point source pollution?
These ecological areas provide a variety of ecological services, including water purification, flood protection, water filtration and habitat.
What is a wetland?
Synthetic carbon based molecules that do not break down in the environment.
What are persistent organic pollutants?
Where most solid waste goes.
What is a landfill?
The physical removal of large objects in the sewage treatment process.
What is primary treatment?
The range of an environmental factor in which a species can survive.
Commercial development, dam construction, overfishing and pollutants from agriculture and industrial waste.
What are threats to wetlands or mangroves?
POPs are soluble in this.
What is fat?
3 components of a sanitary municipal landfill.
What are a liner (plastic or clay), storm water collection, leachate collect, a cap, methane collection.
This treatment disinfects water before it is released into the environment.
UV light, ozone or chlorine
A plot of dissolved oxygen levels versus the distance from a source of pollution.
What is an oxygen sage curve?
An increase in nutrients that leads to an algal bloom and a decrease in dissolved oxygen in the water.
What is cultural eutrophication?
The increase in concentration of a substance that occurs at each level of the food chain.
What is biomagnification?
One pro and one con of incineration.
Reduces volume
produces air pollution
Caused by exposure to asbestos.
This type of pollutant can lead to birth defects, developmental disorders and gender imbalances in fish and other species.
What is an endocrine disruptor?
Anthropogenic causes of eutrophication.
What are agricultural runoff or wastewater release?
Effect of biomagnification.
Egg shell thinning or developmental deformities in top carnivores.
Reproductive, nervous or circulatory system issues in humans.
Organic matter such as food scraps and yard waste produce fertile soil.
What is composting?
A bacterial infection that typically attacks the lungs. It is spread by breathing in bacteria from the bodily fluids of an infected persion
What is tuberculosis?
This water pollutant caused Minimata disease in Japan.
What is mercury (methylmercury)
The environmental impact of thermal pollution.
What is reduced concentration of dissolved oxygen?
The dose of a chemical that is lethal to 50% of the population
What is LD50?
Hazardous material in E waste
Heavy metals like lead and mercury.
Covid is a type of this infectious disease.
What is Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)?
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