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Pollution
Global Warming
Natural Disasters
Locations
100
A giant island of trash in the pacific ocean.
What is the Pacific Trash Vortex?
100
This effect from global warming lets warm-water species are move into areas that were formerly too cold.
What is the Ocean Temperature?
100
This natural disaster is most common in Japan.
What is a tsunami?
100
This ocean separates Africa and Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean ?
200
This substance is dumped into the ocean so much that it can circle the globe 4 time each year.
What is plastic?
200
This happens when ice melts in the northern and southern poles.
What are rising water levels?
200
This natural disaster can have devastating impacts on agriculture, many of which are similar to those for flooding, which include loss of livestock, water contamination, damage to crops, increased susceptibility of livestock to disease, and flooded farm machinery.
What is a Hurricane?
200
This river that goes into Lake Ontario.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
300
One of the main cause of water pollution.
What are one of the following: Littering, Not recycling, Dumping
300
This effect affects ⅓ of the rivers world wide.
What are drying rivers?
300
This occurs when water overflows or drowns land that's normally dry.
What is a flood?
300
Boundaries were taken from these oceans to make the southern ocean.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian ocean?
400
This harmful group of organisms infests water area's.
What is algae or What is harmful algal bloom (HAB)?
400
One of the effects global warming has on our water supply.
What are one of the following: -Decline in drinking water -Disruptions to power supply -Higher shipping costs -Decline in irrigation supplies -Effects on recreation
400
This natural disaster results in crop failure and shortage of water for other uses, caused by significantly lower rainfall than average over a prolonged period.
What is a drought?
400
The Amazon river starts in this city.
What is Mismi, Peru
500
This type of pollution is caused by erosion and many pollutants get washed into the waters, because of it.
What is Non-point source Pollution
500
This is the height (in inches) that the sea level has risen by in the last 130 years.
What is 8 inches?
500
This rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake water, suffocating wildlife, livestock and humans.
What is a Limnic eruption?
500
Diurnal Tides.
What are tides that elevate one day and lower the next day?