Types of Pollution

What type of pollution is the example:

Water from a river or lake, that is used for cooling powerplants, get warmed up. When that warm water is returned to the river or lake, it is a higher temperature than the river or lake water. This warmer water has less oxygen available for organisms that live in the water.

• Biological pollution

• Chemical pollution

• Thermal pollution

This type of pollution occurs when live or dead organisms are added to water supplies

• Chemical pollution

• Thermal pollution

• Biological pollution

This type of pollution comes from any heating of natural water that results from human activity

• Thermal pollution

• Chemical pollution

• Biological pollution

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

This type of pollution occurs when harmful chemicals are added to water supplies

• Thermal pollution

• Chemical pollution

• Biological pollution

Which type of pollution can lead to harmful "algal blooms"?

• heat pollution

• oil spills

• nutrient pollution

• bacteria

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Eutrophication

Which type of pollution is shown in the image below?

• Air pollution

• Water pollution

• Acid precipitation

• Global warming

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Define point-source pollution.

• Contamination of the environment from multiple, unidentified sources

• Contamination of the environment from a single, identifiable source

• Contamination of the environment from a natural source

• Contamination of the environment from a non-existent source

Chemicals released from an Industrial Plant directly into a river

• Point

• Non-Point

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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

• air pollution

• water pollution

• land pollution

• noise pollution

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EN.ESS3.1

It is caused by any material or contaminants that harms the environment.

• Climate change

• Global warming

• Pollution

• All of them

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4