Environmental Health
This thing includes every plant, animal, lake, ocean, and land mass that is around you.
What is the environment?
At school we recycle by using this.
What is the blue/recycling bin?
When chemicals and trash are put into lakes and rivers it can cause this type of pollution.
What is water pollution.
This type of resource can be replaced within a normal lifetime.
What is a renewable resource?
These are things in nature that people need and use, such as water, plants, and soil.
What are natural resources?
True or False: batteries can be recycled in the blue bins at school.
False
Burning fossil fuels in cars and factories can cause this type of pollution.
What is air pollution?
This type of resource cannot be replaced within a normal lifespan.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Planting these can help draw carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into oxygen.
What are trees?
This word means to change waste products so they can be used again.
What is recycle?
This specific type of water pollution causes ocean waters to turn red and makes eating fish from the area dangerous.
What is the red tide?
This type of nonrenewable resource is created when prehistoric plants and animals are subjected to high amounts of heat and pressure underground.
What are fossil fuels?
What is recycling?
This word means to use something again instead of throwing it away and buying a new one.
What is reuse?
This is when water picks up chemicals and other pollutants from the land and moves it to lakes and rivers through drains and sewers.
What is runoff?
This type of renewable resource is made by using flowing water.
What is hydro power?
This is the name of the large area in the Pacific Ocean where trash has been trapped and accumulated.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
This word means to take actions to reduce waste such as choosing products that use less packaging.
What is precycling?
This type of pollution is caused by releasing sulfur dioxide which is absorbed by rain clouds.
What is acid rain?
This type of renewable resource is created by using the movement of water in the ocean.
What is tidal energy?