Pollution, Global Warming and Greenhouse Effect

This picture shows people walking through a highly-polluted city in China. From what type of pollution are they protecting themselves based on what they are wearing?

• air pollution
• water pollution
• land pollution
• noise pollution

What is a renewable resource?
 
 
  

•  one that can be replaced quickly 
• one that is man-made
• one that comes from the sun 
• one that will never run out 

Which way can people best reduce land pollution caused by large amounts of waste dumped in landfills?  

• They can use a water filter to use fewer water bottles.
• They can recycle their plastic, glass, paper, and cardboard items and only throw away non-recyclable items.
• They can watch less television, reducing electricity use and allowing their electronics to last much longer.
• They can refill large plastic containers, like those used for laundry detergent, instead of throwing them away.

Which one BEST describes a nonrenewable resource?

   

• It is one that will run out one day and can’t be replaced.
• It will last for about 100 years.
•   It can be replaced again and again.
• It will never run out.

I can cut down on pollution by_____

• Walking to the store

• Driving to the store

• Throwing everything away

• Using styrofoam cups

Harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun is absorbed by

• clouds

• ozone molecules

• soil

• water

Global warming can lead to

• deforestation

• climate change

• oil spills

• litter

What is a point-source pollution?

• Oil spilling from supertanker
• Drainpipe spilling waste into river
• Toxic Chemicals
• Single sites of waste

What is a Non-Point source Pollution?

• Soil from farms
• Acid rain
• Damaged Sewer Pipe or system 
• Salts from irrigation of farm fields

Pollution that comes from MANY different places and is hard to identify its source.

• Point

• Non-Point