Pollutants
Pesticides
Land Pollution or Water Pollution
What is the environment?
Everything around us
What is Pollution?
Anything in our environment that doesn't belong there.
What does the Yellow color mean on the Air Quality Index?
Moderate, or a little bit of pollution.
Trash in the Storm Drain
Water pollution
Why is it important to protect our environment from pollution?
Because an unhealthy environment means the things that live there will be unhealthy.
What are the 3 types of pollution
Land, Air, and Water pollution.
What happens to fish who live in polluted water?
They get sick, they eat trash that is bad for them, and the trash gets stuck on them.
Forrest Fire
Air Pollution
Who puts the most pollution into our environment?
People.
What are 3 ways pollution can get into our environment.
Name any 3 ways.
What causes acid rain?
Factories and cars release acid gasses into the air which goes up into the clouds and mixes with the rain.
Litter
Land Pollution or Water Pollution
How can we protect our environment?
Stop polluting it, don't throw trash on the ground, don't spill oil into the ocean...
How does pollution get in the air
Gases from machines, cars, factories, forrest fires and others get released into the air.
What happens to people if acid rain hurts all of our plants?
People and animals will not be able to eat them!
Mining
Land Pollution
Is it easy to clean pollution from the ocean? Why?
No! The oil was the hardest to get out!
Is it healthy for people to breath in a lot of pollution? Why?
No! It gets in our lungs and makes it hard to breath!