Water
This type of water pollution is caused when factroies release heated water.
What is thermal pollution
Ocean acidification happens when this gas is absorbed by the ocean.
What is carbon dioxide?
This time period brought an increase in food production, reduced need for irrigation, and fewer pests. However, it also brought with it more pollution from pesticides, declining air quality and increased soil salinization levels.
What is the green revolution?
The three soil particle types in order from smallest to largest.
What is clay, silt, and sand?
An area of land where waste is compacted and buried.
What is a landfill?
Water pollution released from a single, identifiable source such as a factory or vessel.
What is point source pollution
This is the process of making freshwater out of saltwater. It requires a lot of energy and can harm marine life.
What is desalination?
This pesticide brought the bald eagle population to the brink of extinction in the mid-1900s.
What is DDT?
Find the missing percentage.
Sand 20% Silt 45% Clay ___%
What is 35%?
This type of waste includes paper, cardboard, plastic and food scraps.
What is municipal waste?
During coral bleaching, living coral expel algae due to warm temperatures. What is the name of this algae?
What is zooxanthellae
The process of excess nutrients causing algal blooms and fish kills due to decreased oxygen levels.
What is eutrophication?
This is the process of land becoming drier and less fertile. This process makes it hard to grow crops.
What is desertification?
This type of mining involves disruption of soil layers and loss of ferile land
What is surface mining?
This type of air pollution is caused by vehicle emissions chemically reacting with sunlight
What is photochemical smog
Only 3% of Earth's water is fresh and most of it is frozen in the form of...
What are ice caps and glaciers
This could be used if farming near a body of eater to prevent runoff.
What is a buffer?
There is DDT in a body of water. Algae takes up the DDT. Insects eat the algae. Frogs eat the insects. Birds eat the frogs. The bird has the highest concentration of DDT.
What is biomagnification
This forestry practice involves cutting down all of the trees in an area and results in soil erosion and sediment pollution.
What is clear cutting
This international agreement led to the decline of CFC use and ultimately began healing the ozone hole.
What is the montreal protocol?
This can happen when we overpump aquifers and water tables collapse.
What is saltwater intrusion
There was a trend in this kind of food when the use of factory farming and feedlots started.
What is organic and local?
This is the biggest risk of using GMO crops.
What is accidental cross pollination with non-GM crops?
The soil type for 50% clay 25% silt 25% sand.
What is clay?
The process of people moving from rural areas to urban areas.
What is urbanization?