Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Environmental
Chemistry
- Monitoring Amounts Of Chemicals
- Water
- Chemicals
- Heavy Metals
Anmerkungen:
- Biomagnification- levels of metals increasing as we go up food chain
- Acidity
Anmerkungen:
- Want it to be close to neutral
- Dissolved Oxyogen
Anmerkungen:
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus
Anmerkungen:
- Don't want too much or too little
- Salts
Anmerkungen:
- Acids and Bases reacting
Low levels of salts are needed
- Pesticides
Anmerkungen:
- Used to kill unwanted pests
- Biological Indicators
- Genetically Engineered Plants: Genetically Engineered
Grass that Changes Color If There are Toxins in The Soil
- Bacteria
Anmerkungen:
- Bacteria ,
Mosses, Tree Bark, Bark Pockets, Tree Rings, Lichens, Leaves, Fungi
- Aquatic Indicators
Anmerkungen:
- Dragon flys, Mosquitoes, Frogs,
- Species used to monitor the
health of the ecosystem
- Air
- Chemicals
- Carbon Dioxide
Anmerkungen:
- population increase and deforestation
- Carbon Monoxide
Anmerkungen:
- Pollution from vehicle emmisions
- Methane
- Sulfur dioxide
Anmerkungen:
- Burning coal and factory emissions
- Ozone
Anmerkungen:
- VOCs volatile organic compounds
- Biological Idicators
- Lichen
- Atmosphere
- Green House Affect
- Enhanced Green House Effect
Anmerkungen:
- How humans contribute to greenhouse effect
- Chemicals
- Water Vapor
- Carbon Dioxide
- Ozone Layer
Anmerkungen:
- Protects us from most of the suns UV radiation
- Chlorofluorocarbons
Anmerkungen:
- Organic compound that contains only carbon, chlorine, and fluorine
- Light
- Spreading of Harmful Substances
- Air
- Release at its Source
- Dispersion
Anmerkungen:
- When Chemicals travel in all directions
- Deposition
- Ground Water
- Water Table
Anmerkungen:
- How much water is at the surface of the earth
- Permeable Pores
Anmerkungen:
- Everything can go through it.
- Surface Water
- Soil
- Changing Concentration of
Harmful Chemicals
- Dispersion
- Dillution
Anmerkungen:
- Reducing the concentration of a chemical
- Biodegradation
Anmerkungen:
- Something Biological breaking something up.
Yellow slime mold
- Factors Affect Biodegradation
- Photolysis
Anmerkungen:
- chemical process by which molecules are broken down into smaller units through the absorption of light.
- Phytoremediation
Anmerkungen:
- The use of plants that mitigate the environmental problem without the need to excavate the contaminant material and dispose of it elsewhere.
- Leachate
Anmerkungen:
- Leachate is any liquid that in passing through matter, extracts solutes, suspended solids or any other component of the material through which it has passed.
- Biomagnification
Anmerkungen:
- The increase in concentration of a substance that occurs in a food chain.
- Substances Essential to Living
- Micro Nutrients
Anmerkungen:
- Seleium
- Organic Molecules
- Carbohydrates
Anmerkungen:
- Need
Sugar
Simple or complex molocules made of C,H,O
- Lipids
Anmerkungen:
- Protiens
Anmerkungen:
- Nucleic Acids
Anmerkungen:
- Macro Nutrients
Anmerkungen:
- Nitrogen
Anmerkungen:
- Makes Proteins
Makes Chloraphyl
stems leaves
Meat
- Phosphorus
Anmerkungen:
- Root flower growth
Cellular resperation
Photosynthesis
Making DNA, Bones, Teeth
- Potassium
Anmerkungen:
- Stimulates growth
Making Protein
Fight Disease
Making Chloraphyl
Muscle contraction
Nerve impulse