this is one of the leading causes of pollution. Rain that is not absorbed into the soil that runs over paved and developed surfaces carrying with it pollutants
What is Storm-water runoff?
100
Toxins that are released into the air which later become vapors and then become rain, which later pollutes other areas of land.
What are green house gases?
100
Organization developed by President Nixon to regulate pollution.
What is the EPA?
100
This industry blocked regulation efforts from the government for over 30 years.
What is the agriculture business.
100
The specific name of hormonal medication that has resulted in hermaphrodite fish and mutated frogs.
What are endocrine disruptors?
200
This condition within the water is a bio-hazard and humans must abstain from contact. A naturally occurring substance which produces toxins.
What is Red-Tide
200
These are a result of industrial waste and are "accumulative." *hint, it's a 3 letter abbreviation.
What are PCB's?
200
This environmental program was designed to address the most severe hazardous waste sights in the United States.
What is the Superfund?
200
This law allows farms/manufacturers to determine whetehr their facility is releasing or will release pollution into waterways--if they decide it won't, then they don't have to apply for permits.
What is the zero-discharge law?
200
Define "soft armoring" techniques.
When you use natural substances to create retaining walls, such as rock walls, indigenous plants, etc.
300
Areas of low-dissolved oxygen under water. Nothing can survive in these underwater regions.
What are Dead Zones?
300
This substance is extremely high in nitrogen and phosphorus is a main cause for pollution and is most commonly found in the agricultural industry.
What is animal waste?
300
A community effort of citizens, governments, tribes, scientists and businesses working to restore and protect the Sound. Created by Chris Gregoire.
What is the Puget Sound Partnership?
300
This is the main focus of agribusiness which hindered regulation.
What is financial interests.
300
What did Governor Chris Gregoire describe the sound as? Not a toilet but a ________ that holds everything we put into it.
What is a bathtub?
400
Pollutants high in _____ and ______ cause increased growth of algae blooms.
What is nitrogen and phosphorous?
400
These toxins are carried by surface runoff and every two years, we dump about 250,000 barrels of this substance into the Puget Sound.
What is oil?
400
This prioritizes cleanup and improvement projects within the State, coordinating local, state and federal efforts. A plan from the Puget Sound Partnership.
What is the Action Agenda?
400
According to William Ruckelshaus, President Nixon's interest in the environment was purely _______.
What is political rather than environmental.
400
This marine mammal has been declared 'extinct' due to PCB pollution.
What are orca whales?
500
This toxin is carried with algae blooms and can cause Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning.
What is saxitoxin?
500
(our thesis): _________acts contribute to the majority of pollution in the Sound.
What are individual acts of pollution?
500
list several individual acts that could save the sound:
What are: soft armoring, pick up pet waste, regulate agricultural waste, don't dispose of chemicals, etc....
500
This is a problem within our community, because it affects the silent pollution of individual acts.
What is unawareness?
500
the specific name of the algae that created red-tide.