Pollutant Possibilities
This industry is the largest contributor to water pollution worldwide
What is agriculture
Created by the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore these four personified machines work together to clean up Baltimore's waterways
What is a Trash Wheel
Pollution affects this vital part of our ecosystem
What is plant and animal life
Water pollution can be defined as this
What is the contamination of waterways
There are this many trash wheels currently active in Baltimore
What is four
This new industrial craze has caused poor water pressure and quality in nearby areas
What are Data Centers
This Baltimore University is working towards creating a Data Center which could dramatically affect water quality in the city
What is John Hopkins University
These animals use highly developed ears to hear others of their species from hundreds of miles away
What are whales?
Fouling is the act of doing this
What is oil physically harming an animal
Mr Trash Wheel can be found in this central location
Where is the Inner Harbor
This is globally the most littered item, with over 4.5 trillion littered annually.
What are cigarette butts?
Led by the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, this initiative promotes the health of the harbor through local cleanups and events
What is the Healthy Harbor Initiative
These animals are dying throughout the Chesapeake as a result of recent algae blooms
What are blue crabs?
Novel Ecosystems are defined as
What are ecosystems with new assemblages or combinations of species resulting directly and indirectly from human action
This Trash Wheel has made its home in Masonville Cove
Who is Captain Trash Wheel
90% of this material ends up discarded as waste
What is plastic?
Due to warm weather and pollution buildup, the Inner Harbor has been experiencing this phenomenon causing the whole area to smell like rotting eggs
What is a Pistachio Tide
Marine biodiversity has dropped by this percentage over the past 50 years.
What is 56%
The process by which leaves release water vapor into the atmsophere
What is transpiration?
Professor Trash Wheel lives and works in this neighborhood
Where is Canton
These generate noise pollution by popping thousands of microbubbles every few seconds
What are ship propellers?
This relatively recent disaster risked stirring up toxic sediment and harmed ecosystems in the harbor
What is the Key Bridge Collapse?
This environmental process causes algae blooms due to excess amounts of runoff and weather changes disrupting the oxygen levels in waterways leading to deaths of aquatic species
What is eutrophication
This metric recently peaked as smoke from Canada was blown South into the United States
What is Air Quality Index (AQI)?
The last Trash Wheel to find its way home in 2021
Who is Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West