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Water Pollution
Air Pollution
Laws
Consequences
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100
This chemical is both an air and water pollutant and causes ocean acidification and greenhouse effect
What is carbon dioxide
100
This is the chemical formula for ozone
What is O3
100
This law sets maximum amounts of allowable water pollution
What is The Clean Water Act
100
Thermal pollution causes this chemical to become less abundant for living things in a body of water.
What is oxygen
100
This term refers to the oxygen needed or consumed by biotic factors in an aquatic ecosystem
What is BOD (biochemical oxygen demand)
200
This term refers to a single location where pollution enters an aquatic ecosystem
What is point source pollution
200
This compound, when released in large concentrations, can contribute to "acid rain"
What is nitrogen oxides or sulfur dioxide
200

This law regulates the clean up of 'Superfund' sites

CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)

200

Mining can cause? List 3 effects of mining

 habitat destruction, soil erosion, water pollution through chemical runoff, air pollution from dust particles, and disruption of local ecosystems

200
This term refers to any pollution or circumstance that causes a body of water to increase in temperature
What is thermal pollution
300
Refers to wide scale, landscape area pollution usually associated with run-off from many locations
What is non-point source pollution
300

What is the "silent killer" found in car exhaust

What is Carbon monoxide

300

 What is The Clean Air Act. Bonus name the 6 pollutants

What is The Clean Air Act. Bonus name the 6 pollutantsThis law governs the regulation of the six criteria pollutants. carbon monoxide, lead, ground-level ozone, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, and sulfur dioxide 

300
These chemicals are both greenhouse gases and an ozone depletors
What are CFCs
300
The metric prefixes for 1000 and 1/1000th
kilo and milli
400

This occurs when there is an unnatural excess of nutrients in an aquatic ecosytem

What is eutrophication

400

What is PM and what does it stand for?

What is PM and what does it stand for? Is a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets Includes dust, dirt, soot, and smoke. Stands for Particulate matter. 

400
This law sets maximum allowable contaminate levels for pollutants in drinking water, with an emphasis on ground water regulations
What is Safe Drinking Water Act
400
Ocean acidification is caused when these two chemicals combine
What is carbon dioxide and water
400
This concept explains that as the atmosphere warms, greenhouse gasses become more abundant, which in turn causes the atmosphere to warm even more
What is a positive feedback loop
500

This term describes a process whereby larger objects are allowed to settle out of waste water and removed

What is primary sewage treatment

500

This substance forms when sunlight interacts with volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides

What is photochemical smog

500

what is the Kyoto Protocol 

International Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emission and combat climate change 

500

Coal mining and burning release these two dangerous elements

What are mercury and lead.

500

This is the largest source of water pollution

Runoff from Agriculture