AIR AND WATER POLLUTION
What gas do humans exhale that is also a greenhouse gas?
What is carbon dioxide?
What is the term for the amount of greenhouse gases caused by a person or activity?
What is a carbon footprint?
What is agricultural pollution?
What is contamination released into the environment from farming and raising animals?
Most of Earth’s garbage ends up in these places.
What are landfills?
A major negative event caused by human actions is called this.
What is a man-made disaster?
What effect traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere and helps warm the planet?
What is the greenhouse effect?
As the human population increases, humans use more of these from Earth.
What are natural resources?
What is the clearing away of large areas of trees called?
What is deforestation?
Landfills are designed to store waste, but not do this to it.
What is break it down?
Deepwater Horizon is an example of this kind of disaster.
What is an oil spill?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are all examples of this type of fuel.
What are fossil fuels?
These fuels are nonrenewable and formed from the remains of ancient living things.
What are fossil fuels?
What gas do cows release that contributes to greenhouse gases?
What is methane?
Glass bottles, Styrofoam, and plastic are examples of materials that are this.
What is non-biodegradable?
What is legislation?
What is a law or set of laws passed by the government?
This type of pollution happens when harmful substances contaminate rivers, lakes, or oceans.
What is water pollution?
What usually happens to the amount of trash produced as the human population grows?
What is it increases?
What is likely to happen when heavy rain causes fertilizers to wash off farms into rivers and lakes?
What is runoff?
Name ONE major problem caused by landfills.
What is taking up land/space or releasing toxic substances into soil and water?
Environmental legislation is created to do what?
What is protect the environment?
Name TWO ways human activities increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
What are burning fossil fuels, factory emissions, vehicle emissions, or deforestation?
Explain why a larger human population can lead to more climate change.
What is more people using more energy, burning more fossil fuels, and producing more pollution and greenhouse gases?
Name TWO environmental problems caused by agricultural pollution.
What are water contamination, runoff, deforestation, habitat destruction, algal blooms, or air pollution?
Describe how reducing, reusing, and recycling can help protect Earth’s resources.
What is reducing waste, lowering pollution, conserving resources, and decreasing landfill use?
What is ONE action citizens can take to help pass environmental legislation?
What is writing to congresspeople, voting, joining environmental groups, or raising awareness?