Land pollution

How Do Landfills Effect The Environment ??

• Landfills cause fish to be poisoned and die

• Landfills support plant growth and healthy soil

• Landfills cause smog in the air.

• Landfills cause chemicals from trash to absorb into the soil and harm plants.

Which is one reason that trash and litter can hurt wildlife?

• Wildlife are afraid of human garbage.

• Trash covers the scent of other animals they are hunting.

• Wildlife may try to eat plastics and choke on them.

• Trash and litter removes their camouflage.

Which human action can cause pollution

• Walking

• Biking

• Mining

• Recycling

What is an effect of land pollution?

• no clean drinking water

• loss of habitat for animals

• diseases from breathing in poor quality air

What is the largest cause of land pollution?

• Animal waste

• Plants decomposing

• Human actions

Which of the following are causes of land pollution?

• Mining

• Increase in greenhouse gases

• Pesticides

• Landfills

_____________________ is the contamination of air, land, and water

• Conservation

• Ecology

• Pollution

Pollution occurs when people release, dump, leak, spill, or ______________ the environment around us.

• litter

• preserve

• save

The illegal dumping or littering of waste onto the land is called __________ pollution.

• air

• land

• water

_____ is a material that is found in nature and that is used by living things

• nonrenewable resource

• natural resource

• renewable resource