Why can't I breath?
This causes a decrease in the pH of lakes and removes the protective waxy layer from leaves and pine needles.
What is acid rain?
Where most solid waste goes after the garbage people pick it up.
What is a landfill?
The type of water pollution when you know exactly where the pollution is coming from.
What is point source pollution?
This chemical is a lung irritant in the troposphere and protects from UV radiation in the stratosphere.
What is ozone?
This is the term used for when a non-native species out competes native species for food and habitat space.
What is an invasive species?
1/1000th of a gram.
What is a mg?
This is produced by particulates, sulfur compounds, and moisture in the air?
What is industrial (gray) smog?
One way to reduce solid waste by basically burying food scraps in dirt, which later becomes fertilizer.
What is composting?
The biggest cause of marine organism deaths once plastics break down.
What are microplastics?
Where the greenhouse layer exists specifically.
what is the top of the troposphere?
The term used to describe when the number of species in an area is significantly decreased.
What is a loss of biodiversity?
one million Joules
What is a Megajoule
A naturally occurring substance in the atmosphere that converts primary pollutants to secondary pollutants like acids.
What is water?
The term used to describe any fluids that leak out of landfills.
What is leachate?
This term describes what happens when too many nutrients enter a water system, tons of algae grows and blocks out the light from organisms below...and things eventually start to die off.
What is eutrophication?
These general group of compounds are the cause of the hole in the ozone layer.
What are fluorocarbons? or What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's)?
This is the acronym for the international treaty established to reduce trade in endangered species or byproducts from those species.
What is CITES?
3 million in scientific notation
What is 3 x 106 ?
This is formed when nitrogen compounds, VOC's and sunlight come together in places like Los Angeles.
What is photochemical smog?
This term refers to power plants that burn garbage to generate electricity.
What are waste to energy power plants?
This term refers to the substances, like certain drugs and chemicals, that enter a water supply, and then interfere with an organisms natural hormone function, especially in males.
What are endocrine disruptors?
These two greenhouse gases have higher global warming potential then carbon dioxide.
What are methane and nitrous oxide?
One of the most significant causes of reduction in species numbers that is a direct result of human population growth.
What is habitat destruction?
4.26 x 107 written out in numbers.
What is 42,600,000?
This is a result of poor ventilation as well as homes that are too well insulated making residents and employees sick.
What is sick building syndrome?
These are chemicals like PCB's and dioxins that stay in the environment for a long time and become concentrated in food webs at the higher trophic levels.
What are POP's?
This is a tropical, marine, coastal wetland biome that has been polluted and decimated in Southeast Asia due to US demand for shrimp.
What are mangroves?
This acid is what is decreasing the pH of the ocean due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What is carbonic acid?
A major result of warming oceans on the most biodiverse habitat in the ocean?
What is coral bleaching?
The number of meters in 152 km in scientific notation.
What is 1.52 x 105 m?