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100
This is what happens when air pollution chemicals fuse with water in the air. It damages the environment as a result.
What is acid rain.
100
This pollution problem resulted in the release of nuclear radiation clouds into the atomosphere.
What is the Chernobyl Power Plant incident.
100
The Soviet government told the people of Ukraine about the power plant failure after what?
What is when other countries called and complained about radiation levels increasing in their countries (like Sweden).
100
The government evacuated citizens of the nearby town (Pripyat) and the town is deserted and "frozen in time" and still highly radioactive. What is this the result of?
What is the Chernobyl Power Plant explosion.
100
The solution was to evacuate nearby citizens and build a massive concrete chamber over this pollution problem.
What is Chernobyl failed reactor 4 power plant.
200
Describe what nuclear radiation is.
What is a form of energy that comes from nuclear reactions and is highly harmful to humans.
200
Explain what the cause of the Tisza-Danube river system pollution was.
What is a cyanide spill due to a broken dam from a waste pond in a gold mine into the river system.
200
What happened in Romania?
What is a cyanide spill was carried to other countries like Hungary through the Danube river system.
200
The negative aspects of acid rain/what are the effects?
What is erosion of buildings and monuments, and the destruction of the environment (forests).
200
What are smokestack scrubbers? What is their purpose?
What are the efforts of power plants and factories to install in the smokestacks to cut down on pollution by cleaning out the air pollution they put out.
300
Describe a river system.
What is a river and all of the streams (tributaries) tht flow into it.
300
What is causing acid rain?
What are chemicals released from the Black Triangle factories and power plants into the air as pollution by burning fossil fuels.
300
The town of Pripyat was deserted after they informed the citizens of the toxic power plant explosion. Medically, the side effects of the radiation poisining were evident. What were some of these side effects?
What is radiation burns (chemical burns), birth defects, cancer increase, loss of hair, internal sickness, and death.
300
What was one of the negative effects directly related to the cyanide spill?
What are dead fish and otters
300
Name two of three alternative energy sources to cut down on fossil fuels being burned for energy.
What are hydropower, wind power (turbines), and solar energy (solar panels).
400
Tell me about transboundary pollution. What is it?
What is pollution that starts in one country that crosses boundaries/boarders , thus affecting other countries.
400
The Tisza-Danube cyanide spill is an example of what?
What is an accident, point-source, and transboundary pollution.
400
Why were the sea otters dying on the Danube River?
What is their diet: they ate the cyanide-effected fish that were killed in the cyanide spill.
400
Factories created higher smoke stacks to get the pollution up higher away from their city. What was the result of this?
What is the air pollution was carried to non-industrial parts of countries by the high winds and polluted those areas.
400
What was the solution created in response to the cyanide spill in Romania?
What is a committee of the 13 affected countries was created to protect their river system of pollution and get it clean from other pollution problems.
500
Transboundary is transferred by two natural ways.
What are wind and water.
500
The common cause to all of these transboundary pollution problems.
What is human error.
500
Finland and Sweden are greatly affected by air pollution. Why is this?
What is wind carries the air pollution from the Black Triangle area north to Finland and Sweden.
500
This pollution incident actually had a positive outcome from the occurance. What was the pollution problem, and what was the positive outcome?
What is the Tisza-Danube cyanide spill, and the postive outcome was it made the countries unite and create a pollution committee to help keep their river system clean.
500
What have been some of the effects of this transboundary pollution (radiation, air pollution, water pollution)?
What are destroyed environments, birth defects from radiation, poorer health, loss of wildlife and forests slowly corroding, as well as the slow erosion of our buildings and monuments.