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Outline
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Geography
  • G-7
  • Pollution/Greenhouse effect/Ozone Layer
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Pollution
  • Burning coal - produces  electricity
  • Factory smoke - producing  goods
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Atmosphere  Pollution
  • Respiratory problems - lung cancer
  • Harms life forms - forests, lakes
  • Stone buildings - eats away at surface
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Source
  • Burning fossil  fuels -
    • automobiles & trucks
      • produces  smog
      • produces  acid  rain
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Ozone  Layer
  • Absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation
    • UV  can  destroy  life
    • CFC’s  deplete ozone layer
      • banned  by 2000
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Greenhouse  Effect
  • Allows  sunlight  in
  • Prevents  heat  from  escaping
    • prevents  extreme  cold  temps
    • carbon  dioxide  increase  greenhouse  effect
    • effect  climate  changes  + temp
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Water & Land Pollution
  • Hazardous  waste - pollute  land & get into drinking  water
  • Pesticides - washes  into streams - affect  fish
  • Solid  waste - land  fills
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Recycle
  • Reduces  soled  waste
  • Reduces  energy  to  process
  • Uses  resources over - trees/paper - aluminum cans - glass