Pollution Review
**** Memorize your pollution chart!!***
Add Mercury to your pollution chart if you don’t have it there!
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Phytoremediation
Bioremediation
Acid deposition
Catalytic converter
Electrostatic precipitator
Wet scrubber
Heat island effect
Ozone depletion
Photochemical smog
Primary pollutant
Secondary pollutant
Temperature inversion
Albedo
Greenhouse gas
Leachate
Industrial solid waste
Municipal solid waste
Brownfield
Open loop recycling
Closed loop recycling
Bioaccumulation
Point source pollutant
Non-point source pollutant
Desalination
Oxygen sag curve
Primary sewage treatment
Secondary sewage treatment
Acts/Laws to know:
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Montreal Protocol
Kyoto Protocol (note: the US is not part of the Kyoto protocol)
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
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CERCLA
Case Studies:
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Love Canal
Cuyahoaga river
Ganges river
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Beluga whales in the Artic
Birds of Prey and DDT
Mercury poisoning in the ocean/rivers
Questions:
1. What percentage of the atmosphere is Oxygen? Nitrogen?
2. Is indoor or outdoor pollution worse for human health? Why?
3. What factors incease the likelihood of photochemical smog formation?
4. What are negative environmental and health effects of bottled water?
5. What causes the ozone hole? How is ozone depleted? How does it reform?
6. What are the effects of ozone depletion?
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8. What type of radiation does the ozone layer absorb?
**** Ozone depletion does NOT cause global temperatures to increase directly! Please do not confuse
ozone depletion with climate change ***************
Climate change questions:
1. What are the greenhouse gasses?
2. How are greenhouse gasses good for the environment?
3. Why can too many greenhouse gasses be bad for the environment?
4. What are the effects of increasing global temperatures?