APES Unit 8 Vocabulary Quiz

Refers to a single, identifiable source of a pollutant

• Point source

• Non-point source

The following are examples of what type of pollution:

-agricultural runoff

-erosion from logging operations

-acid mine drainage-construction sediment

• Point source

• Non-point source

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-5

Requires industries of a point source to get a permit from the state and/or EPA before they can discharge any effluent into a body of water

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Water Act

EPA sets standards for tap drinking water and monitors at the state and local level

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Clean Water Act

Occurs when a coral becomes stressed and expels most of its colorful algae, leaving an underlying ghostly white skeleton of calcium carbonate.

• Dead Zone

• Coral Bleaching

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Areas with little oxygen and little life. Can be self-perpetuating with the dying organisms subsequently decomposing and causing continued oxygen demand by microbes.

• Dead Zone

• Coral Bleaching

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Is sediment is point or non-point source pollution?

• Point

• Non-point

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Created intestinal blockage and chocking hazards for wildlife, introduced toxic substances to the food chain, and entanglement and suffocation

• Great Pacific Garbage Patch

• Mercury Pollution

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Comes from burning coal and is deposited from the atmosphere throughout the world

• Great Pacific Garbage Patch

• Mercury Pollution

Chemicals, types of radiation, or certain viruses that cause or promote cancer

• Carcinogen

• Mutagen

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1