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Vocabulary
Water Pollution
Air Pollution
Land Pollution
Ways We Help
100

What is Biodiversity?

The living things in an environment that depend on each other. Having more of each species to keep a balance in an ecosystem

100
chemical, soil or other substances that are washed into a body of water; this often leads to water pollution
What is runoff?
100
polluted air; combination of smoke and fog
What is smog?
100

trash, cars/planes/trains, plastic

What are 3 examples of land pollution?

100

use energy saving lights/appliances, use reusable products, reduce the amount of single use plastics we use, plant trees

What are 3 ways we can help reduce our ecological footprint?

200
where an organism lives
What is habitat?
200

a large container that can prevent an oil spill from spreading further into the ocean

What is a boom?

200
layer of gas that protects us from the Sun's rays that is being destroyed from air pollution
What is ozone?
200

renewable can be replaced in our life time, non-renewable takes hundreds of years to be replaced

What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources?

200
taking old materials and making them into something new
What is recycling?
300

a more scientific word for farming

What is agriculture?

300

a detergent or chemical used to thin out oil which makes it easier to collect and remove

What is a dispersant?

300
harmful rain caused by air pollution that can harm buildings and plants; causes faster erosion of land
What is acid rain?
300

If you add up all the resources and demands on nature it takes to support a person’s lifestyle, we call that an ecological footprint.  

What is an ecological footprint?

300
a resource that can be replaced during a lifetime if used wisely
What is renewable?
400
a nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago
What is fossil fuel?
400

acid rain, run-off from pesticides, sewage

What are 3 examples of water pollution?

400
average temperature and precipitation in an area
What is climate?
400

a common term for waste that is collected in our sewage system that ends up in our water systems

What is raw sewage?

400
teaching others about how to help the planet
What is educate?
500

a waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil

What is pollution?

500

when the acidity or pH of the oceans, lakes and rivers change due to acid rain which is caused by pollution. It can kill off marine life, change the health of coral reefs, and get into our bodies when we eat or drink from the water.

What is acidification? Why can it be a problem?

500

burning coal, oil and natural gasses

What are 3 examples of fossil fuels that cause greenhouse gasses?

500

windmills, hydroelectricity, geothermal energy, solar energy

What are 3 examples of renewable energy?

500
making good choices with our natural resources
What is conservation?