Cuyahoga's Dirty Secrets
Sometimes dead rats even floated by, some the size of ____.
A.) Cats
B.) Fish
C.) Dogs
C.) Dogs
Today, the leading cause of air pollution in the U.S. is _____ vehicles.
A.) Motor
B.) Big
C.) Tesla
A.) Motor
PCBs are toxic chemicals that were used in _____ work until they were banned in 1978.
A.) Industrial
B.) Mechanical
C.) Tough
A.) Industrial
In 1969, chemical waste released into Ohio's Cuyahoga River caused it to burst into ____.
A.) Flames
B.) Fire
C.) Heat
A.) Flames
The _____ River had become the symbol of calamity.
A.) Cuyahoga
B.) Panama
C.) Ohio
A.) Cuyahoga
There was a general rule that if you fell into the Cuyahogo River, God forbid, you would go immediately to a _______.
A.) Hospital
B.) Doctor
C.) Coffin
A.) Hospital
In 1963, in an effort to reduce air pollution, the U.S. Congress passed the _______ Act.
A.) Healthy Air
B.) Fresh Air
C.) Clean Air
C.) Clean Air
The city attempted to improve its ____ system so as not to _____ the lake.
A.) Drainage, Disturb
B.) Sewage, Pollute
C.) Trash, Infect
B.) Sewage,Pollute
Water pollution was made worse by the ______ Revolution.
Industrial
____ magazine published an article on the fire alongside a photo of another fire from years earlier.
A.) Time
B.) Local
C.) Weekly
A.) Time
The water was nearly always covered in _____, and it bubbled like a ____.
A.) Oil slicks, soup
B.) Oil pools, stew
C.) Oil slicks, stew
C.) Oil slicks, stew
The ALA defines particle pollution as the most dangerous, and _____, of the widespread outdoor air _______.
A.) Lethal, Toxins
B.) Deadly, Pollutants
C.) Hazardous, Pollution
B.) Deadly, Pollutans
In 2018, ____ scientists tested the river bottom and found that _______ biphenyl (PCB) levels remain dangerously high.
A.) EPB, Plaxychlorinated
B.) GPC, Proxychlorinated
C.) EPA, Polychlorinated
C.) EPA, Polychlorinated
In _____, CNN reported that up to 500 million _____ of pollutants slip into the global water supply every year.
A.) 2006, Pounds
B.) 2004, Kilograms
C.) 2007, Tons
C.) 2007, Tons
It caused about $_____ in damage to railroad bridges spanning the river and earned some attention in the local ____.
A.) 100,000, Council
B.) 25,000, Town
C.) 50,000, Press
C.) 50,000, Press
The river was ______, but it was also just one of the realities of a growing ______ city.
A.) Gross, Metropolitan
B.) Disturbing, Industrial
C.) Polluted, Industrial
B.) Disturbing, Industrial
In 2007 about 46 percent of all Americans still lived in counties with unhealthy levels of either _____ or ______ pollution, according to the American Lung Association
A.) Ozone, Particle
B.) Frozone, Practicle
C.) Ozone, Molecule
A.) Ozone, Particle
Other scientists have cautioned that the river still has viruses, ______ and parasites.
Bacteria
According to a CNN report, 1 _____ of human excrement contains approximately 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite ____.
A.) Liter, Bugs
B.) Ounce, Larvae
C.) Gram, Eggs
C.) Gram, Eggs
In January ____, Congress established the Environmental Protection Agency, the first federal bureau to oversee pollution ______.
A.) 1990, Orders
B.) 1970, Regulations
C.) 1960, Control
B.) 1970, Regulations
In "The Lorax" by Dr. Suess, The Once-Ler's factory dumped waste into the water much like how we did to the Cuyahoga River. What were the pipes singing as they dumped waste into the water?
Slop slop, gloop gloop
Auto emissions also increase the amount of __________ in the atmosphere.
Greenhouse Gases
In the year_____, voters approved a $100 million program to fund the cleanup.
1968
For centuries, humans contaminated sources of drinking water with raw sewage, which led to diseases such as cholera and _______.
Typhoid
On the morning of June __, 1969, an oil slick on the river caught fire.
June 22