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| Industrialization | A period of time in which the methods of producing materials and methods of transportation change rapidly. |
| Urbanization | A trend of movement to urban areas. |
| Issue | A matter about which people have different views. |
| Pollution | Anything added to an envirnment that harms any living thing. |
| Phosphates | Minerals that enhance plant growth |
| Toxic | Something that is highly poisonous is Toxic. |
| Dioxin | An example of highly poisnous is toxic. |
| Noise Pollution | A non-matter form of pollution: ie loud music |
| Solid Waste | House hold garbage and other forms of waste that accumulate in large quantities. |
| Thermal Pollution | A pollution not made of matter: ie global harming |
| Sanitary Landfill site | A supervised solid waste disposal site at which incoming waste is compacted and covered with soil. |
| Biodegradable | Able to be broken down and use as food by organisms. |
| Non-biodegradable | Unable to be broken down and used as food by organisms. |
| Reduce | One of the "Four R's" of of waste management; to reduce the amount of waste produced. |
| Reuse | One of the "Four R's" of of waste management; to use things either for a second time, or for a new purpose. |
| Recycle | One of the "Four R's" of of waste management; to collect waste of a certain type in order to break it down and rebuild it into other products. |
| Recover | One of the "Four R's" of of waste management; to reclaim either waste material or energy, in order to put it in to another use. |
| carbon monoxide | an odourless, colorless gas produced by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels. |
| nitrogen oxides | gasses formed when fossil fuels are burned at high temperatures |
| sulpher oxides | colorless gasses with a pungent odor, produces when certain fossil fuels, especially coal, are burned |
| hydrocarbons | compounds made up only of hygrogen and carbon; produced as gasses when fossil fuels are burned |
| particulates | tiny solid or liquid particles released when fossil fuels and some other materials are incompletely burned |
| acid rain | precipitation whith a pH below 5.6 (normal rain has a pH of 5.6) |
| Acid Shock | a period of extreme acidity in waterways caused by runoff from acidic snow. |
| Sweage | the liquid and solid waste carried away from homes in underground pipes |
| septic tank | a large underground container for waste water and sewage |
| Effluent | partially purified waste water that runs into a lake, ocean or stream |
| primary sewage treatment | the first level of waste water treatment, where materials are removed by filters and sediment |
| Sludge | Waste material that settles out as sludge |
| Secondary sweage treatment | The level of waste water treatment that includes breaking down waists by bacteria. |
| Tertiary treatment | the third level of waste water treatment, one in which specialized chemical and physical processes are designed to remove certain pollutants still remaining in waste water after primary and secondary treatment |
| turbid | refering to a liquid that appears cloudy because of the presence in it of undissolved solids. |
| residue | matertial that is held back by a filter, or left in place following distillation. |
| Filtrate | the material that passes throught a filter. |
| biotic factors | the living parts of the environment. |
| abiotic factors | the non-living parts of the environment. |
| biological indicators | organisms whose presence or absence can be used to indicate how polluted an environment is. As well, in some cases, the amount of a pollutant in the organism can be measured to determine if they pollutant has reached a level considered to be dangerous. |
