Pollution Sources & Impacts
A specific location from which pollution is released to the environment AND one example.
What is Point Source? Factories, sewage lagoons, effluent from sewage treatment, etc.
The cause(s) of coral reef bleaching.
What is ocean acidification AND/or climate change?
The site municipal solid waste gets taken.
What is a sanitary landfill?
What do LD50 and ED50 stand for?
What is Lethal Dose for 50% of the population and Effective Dose for 50% of the population.
The type of waste that should always be seperated for special recycling
What is E-Waste?
Chemicals that interfere with the functioning of hormones in an organisms body.
What are endocrine disruptors?
The process by which pollutants accumulate in an organism AND the process by which pollutants accumulate through the food chain.
What is bioaccumulation and biomagnification?
The MOST effective strategy for waste reduction
What is REDUCE?
The diseases caused by consumption of human feces through food or water.
What is dysentery AND cholera?
The environmental consequences of DDT
Biomagnification through the food chain leads to high levels in birds, which caused their egg shells to be thin and break during incubation. BONUS: This contributed to the Endangered Species Act.
Three toxic metals from pollutants.
What are lead, mercury, and arsenic?
2 effects of the Clean Water Act
1. Limiting water pollution discharge
2. Funding for wastewater treatment
3. Regulates the filling or degradation of wetlands and streams
4. Sets water quality standards
The most effective way to prevent methane production from solid waste AND 4 materials to collect.
What is composting? Yard trimmings, cardboard, food scraps, leaves, christmas trees, paper products, etc.
The two causes for increasing ranges of many vector carried diseases.
What are climate change and pathogen preference for warm temperatures?
3 environmentally UNfriendly solid waste disposal methods.
What are illegal dumping, incineration and marine littering?
What does POP stand for AND what are two examples?
What is persistent organic pollutant? DDT, PCBs, dioxins, atrazine, etc.
4 methods for oil spill clean up
What are skimming, dispersants, burning, and shoreline clean up?
(Also accept bioremediation & booms)
3 features of a sanitary landfill to prevent pollution.
What are impermeable liner, leachate collection, methane collection and cap?
Name 4 vectors and a disease they can carry.
Rates - plague
Fleas - plague
Mosquitoes - Zika, Malaria, West Nile
Ticks - lymes, RMSF, Alpha-gal
Two ecosystem services AND 3 threats to mangroves.
Services - coastal protection, water filtration, tourism, climate regulation, fish habitat, etc.
Threats - deforestation, development, climate change, sea level rise, oil spills, agriculture run off, overfishing, etc.
List 4 endocrine disruptors.
What are atrazine, DDT, Phthalates, lead, mercury, arsenic, and human medications?
The two types of aquatic pollution caused by energy.
What are thermal pollution and noise pollution?
The difference between open-loop and closed-loop recycling AND 1 example for each.
Open loop recycling makes different products than the original recycled material (ex. waterbottles to clothing). Closed-loop recycling makes the same product as the recycled material (ex. glass bottles turned to glass bottles).
The LD50 for arsenic in humans is 763 mg/kg. How many grams of arsenic would hit the LD50 for a 158 lb person. (1kg=2.2lb) (1000mg=1g)
What is 54.8g?
The steps of primary, secondary and tertiary treatment of wastewater
Primary - removal of solids through screens and filters
Secondary - aeration and bacteria breakdown of organic materials
Tertiary - chemical/UV used to sanitize and/or excess nutrients removed