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Weather
Pollution
Causes
Solutions
Climate Change
100
Large amounts of water submerges dry land.
What is a flood?
100
Chimneys erected high into the air, with lots of smoke and fumes coming out of it. Waste incinerators, manufacturing industries and power plants emit high levels of carbon monoxide, organic compounds, and chemicals into the air.
What is Air Pollution caused by factories?
100
the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
What is the greenhouse effect?
100
converting waste into reusable material.
What is recycling
100
The melting of ice in South and North Poles
What is land ice melting?
200
A storm with violent winds that can go up to 75 to 200 mph and can cover 600 miles of land.
What is a hurricane?
200
Chemicals or dangerous foreign substances are introduced to water, including chemicals, sewage, pesticides and fertilizers from agricultural runoff, or metals like lead or mercury.
What is water pollution?
200
A hydrocarbon gas produced both through natural sources and human activities, including the decomposition of wastes in landfills, agriculture, and especially rice cultivation, as well as ruminant digestion and manure
What is Methane?
200
Using energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal and bioenergy are available around the worl
What is renewable energy sources?
200
heat waves and colder weather and catastrophic storms.
What is irregular weather?
300
A prolonged period of excessively abrnormal hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity.
What is a heat wave?
300
Land being polluted with household waste.
What is land pollution?
300
A powerful greenhouse gas produced by soil cultivation practices, especially the use of commercial and organic fertilizers, fossil fuel combustion, nitric acid production, and biomass burning.
What is Nitrous oxide?
300
using hybrid cars and the less usage of regular cars and buses
What is better transportation?
300
The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere determines its contribution to the greenhouse effect
What is co2 emissions?
400
A large, destructive fire that spreads quickly over woodlands.
What is a wildfire?
400
Sound coming from planes, industry or other sources reaches harmful levels.
What is noise pollution?
400
Contamination of air, soil, or water by harmful substances
What is pollution?
400
stop decomposition of wastes in landfills
What is reducing methane?
400
when land ice melt and water starts to increase
What is sea level rise?
500
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall which makes a shortage of water resulting from this
What is a drought?
500
pollution is the brightening of the night sky inhibiting the visibility of stars and planets by the use of improper lighting of communities.
What is light pollution?
500
When you burn fossil fuels such as gas, coal or oil, this substance is released into the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
less use of fossil fuel combustion
What is the lessening of Nitrous oxide?
500
the change in global climate patterns caused by the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.
What is climate change?