IB ESS Topic 1.5 Pollution

Pollution ___.

• can be from a known or unknown source

• occurs at a greater rate than fixable by the environment through equilibria and negative feedback

• is only matter such as plastics and litter on the sides of roads

• affects organisms forced to live with the pollution

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Which of the following is NOT considered pollution?

• microplastics in wastewater from fleece being washed in washing machine

• grass planted for a soccer field where a forest was

• light from hotels, casinos, and entertainment places on "The Strip" in Las Vegas

• green crabs (native to the NE part of the US) increasing in population in the San Francisco Bay and crowding out native crabs

Pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single, specific site is considered.

• Point Source Pollution

• Acute Pollution

• Non-point Source Pollution

• Persistent Organic Pollutant (POP)

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If you find no insects at all in a pond or stream, what can you conclude?

• Very Polluted

• Slightly Polluted

• Little or No pollution

• Medium Polution

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Toxins pass from tissues in one organism to another through a food chain/web. This is called ___.

• secondary pollution

• bioaccumulation

• biodegradable pollution

• chronic pollution

Waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil.

• Pesticides

• Landfills

• Habitat

• Pollutant

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Humans are ingesting plastic that has ended up in the ocean. How is this possible?

• The tiny plastic particles in the ocean end up coming through the faucets in our sinks once the salt water is converted to fresh water.

• The fish in the ocean eat the plastics and humans eat the fish, causing the toxic chemicals from the plastics to spread from the fish to humans.

• Humans are mistaking plastics in the ocean for food just as the marine life and sea birds are.

• All of the above.

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Wastes produced by agriculture, households, industry, mining, and other human activities can end up in ______________.

• groundwater
• streams and rivers
• oceans
• All of these choices

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Pollutants are introduced into surface or ground water without a specific location source. This is considered ___ pollution.

• point source

• non-point source

• secondary

• biodegradable

A factory dumps extremely hot water into a river. This changes the amount of dissolved oxygen available to living things in the river. How would this pollution be classified?

• point source pollution

• non-point source pollution

• runoff pollution

• sewage pollution

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