Environmental Issues

What is the most pressing environmental issue in Brazil?

• Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest

• Air pollution

• Radioactive fallout

• Water pollution

What are the causes of the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest?

• Logging for lumber

• Cattle ranches

• Mining

• All of the above

What are the causes of air pollution in Mexico City?

• Automobile and factory emissions/Sierra Madre Mountains

• Cutting down trees/water pollution

• Radioactive fallout

• Acid Rain Fall

Solutions to Air Pollution in Mexico City

• Hoy No Circula (Day without a car)/public transportation

• Land protection laws/punishment for illegal mining

• Closed of radioactive site for 100 years

• Harper's purifying filter system

True or False: Effects of air pollution in London and Mexico City include respiratory issues and heart problems.

• True

• False

How do Rainforests effect the whole world

• produces 20% of the world's oxygen

• makes Madison the sigma Alpha

Canadian ________________ is being harvested faster than replacement trees can grow.

• timber

• water

• mountains

• isthmus

What contributes to the acid rain in the Great Lakes and in Germany?

• emissions from automobiles and factories mix with water molecules in the clouds

• cutting down trees and decreases the oxygen in our world

• radioactive fallout that spread all the way to Sweden

• Connor's unusually specific collection of skibidi toilets

Canada and the U.S. sign an agreement in 1972 about the Great Lakes?

• Because of high phosphorus levels causing pollution to the Great Lakes

• Because the U.S. was cutting down trees and deforesting Canada

• Because Bentley and Andrew said they needed to make an alliance

• Because Chernobyl cause radioactive fallout to destroy the area

The worst nuclear disaster in European history to release more radioactive fallout than any other event in history was the ___________________________ ______________________ _________________________.

• Chernobyl nuclear disaster

• Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest

• Smog in Mexico City

• Acid Rain in Germany