Nutrients
These nutrients act mainly as an energy source for metabolism.
What are carbohydrates?
These substances often taste sour and turn litmus paper red.
What are acids?
Aquatic Invertebrates that can be used to monitor the water quality?
What are bioindicators?
Two things that can be used in sanitary landfills to prevent leaching
What are plastic liners and Clay?
Acid precipitation is caused by compounds emitted from this activity.
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
Nutrients that cause algae blooms in lakes
What are nitrogen and phosphorus ?
This is a chemical substance that changes color when exposed to acids or bases.
What is an indicator?
This device removes sulfur oxides from industrial smokestacks.
What is a scrubber?
This element depletes the ozone layer when released into the atmosphere.
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
A comprehensive system for providing health and safety information on hazardous products intended for use, handling, or storage in Canadian workplaces.
What is Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)?
Compounds that contain carbon and hydrogen, is produced by living things
A reaction between an acid and a base produces water and a mineral salt.
What is neutralization?
The dose of a chemical required to kill 50% of a population is referred to as this.
What is LD50?
The spreading and dilution of pollutants in the environment (air, water, or soil) after their release?
What is Dispersion?
This term describes pollutants that dissolve or dilute in water.
What is solubility or dilution?
The primary constituents in fertilizers
What is NPK?
The number on which a hot tub’s pH is recorded as basic range will likely be?
What are 8 to 14?
Stones/Rocks that are added to an acidic lake to neutralize it?
What are Calcium Carbonate (limestones)?
Four gases in our Atmosphere (Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, and Water Vapour)
What are Greenhouse Gases?
The Breakdown of compounds by sunlight?
Photolysis?
Three types of pesticides
What are herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides?
The major source of oxides contributing to acid precipitation is this.
What are NO2, SO2, SO3, and CO2?
This technique uses microorganisms to degrade pollutants at contaminated sites.
What is Biodegradation?
increasing concentration of a substance, like a toxic chemical or heavy metal, in the tissues of organisms as it moves up through a food chain
What is Biomagnification?
The formula for parts per million (ppm)
What is Mass of Solute / Mass of Solution times 106?