What are Land Based Sources and Ocean Based Sources
100
Name three land based sources of marine debris?
What are industry, cities, urban sprawl, construction sites, farms, red tides, toxic sediment, oxygen depleted zones.
100
Name three ocean based sources of Marine Debris.
What are fishing vessels, stationary platforms, cargo and cruise ships
100
How many tonnes of trash is generated per year?
What is 250 million tonnes
200
How much of the Earth's water is from the Oceans?
What is 96.5%
200
Sources of pollution can be categorized as....
What is Point Source Pollution or Non Point Source Pollution
200
What happens in a construction site to cause water pollution?
Runoff creates sediment in the water choking fish and plants and killing them.
200
Name one way marine debris harm wildlife
What is entanglement, ingestion, disruption of habitat
300
Give two examples of Point Source Pollution
What is Pipe, Ditch, Ship, Smokestack (accept two)....
300
What types of pollution comes from industry?
What is nitrogen oxide from autos, smokestacks, heavy metals...
400
Give three terms in the water cycle
What is evaporation, precipitation, transpiration
400
Give three examples of Non Point Source pollution..
What is runoff from cities (roads, sewage), manure and fertilizer from farms, sediment from construction sites....
400
What pollution comes from our cities?
What are fertilizers
herbicides
insecticides
animal waste
oil, grease from cars
tar sealants from roads
sediment from landscaping
BACTERIA AND VIRUSES FROM SEWERS
500
When there is a lack of oxygen and too many nutrients in the water causing a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.