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Pollution & Conserve

Ch. 27

QuestionAnswer
Reduce to use fewer natural resources
Reuse to use natural resources more than once.
Recycle to use natural resources in another way.
Pollutant any substance that contaminates the environment
Air Pollutants include soot, smoke, ash, and harmful gases.
Smog form of air pollution when sunlight reacts with fossil fuels.
Acid Precipitation when acidic water/ice falls from the sky harming living things
Greenhouse Effect the trapping of heat on the Earth's surface.
Climate Change global warming or cooling caused by the greenhouse effect
Ozone Depletion the thinning of the atmosphere's layer that protects living things from the sun's harmful rays.
Carbon Monoxide poisonous gas that is produced when fuels are burned
Radon radioactive gas that is given off by rocks/soil that causes lung cancer
Algae Blooms type of water pollution caused by sewage & too much fertilizer.
Aquifers underground pools or rivers of water.
Erosion movement of soil from one place to another place
Hazardous Wastes poisonous chemical materials that cause harm to soil, water and living things.
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