Understanding Pollution: Protecting Our Environment for a Better Future
Answer each question to the best of your ability, using full sentences and make sure to include detail in your responses. Ensure you are using the text to locate important information that will help you provide accurate, and informative answers.
Level One: Retrieval (Locate the information in the article)
- Find a sentence from the article that explains what pollution is.
| What is Pollution?
Pollution refers to the introduction of harmful substances or waste materials into the environment, causing damage to air, water, or land. These substances can come from natural sources, like volcanoes and forest fires, but most pollution is caused by human activities. |
- What are the 5 different types of pollution that are talked about in the article?
| Land Pollution | Noise Pollution | Light Pollution | Water Pollution | Air Pollution |
- What are the three R’s humans can do to reduce pollution? Provide 2 examples of how humans can do these..
| R… | R… | R… |
| The idea of doing more with less. | Opt for long lasting items rather than. | Ditch plastic bags and buy reusable ones. |
| Reducing Waste | Refill a bottle from home instead of buying a new one. | Avoid using single K-cups |
Level Two: Vocabulary (Understanding unfamiliar words)
| Word | Definition | What sentence did you find it in? | Use it in your own sentence |
| deterioration | a deterioration in the condition of the patient. | It can also lead to the deterioration of the ecosystem and contribute to climate change. | A deterioration in the condition of the patient. |
| emissions | the effects of lead emission on health | Common sources include car emissions, | cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. |
| contaminants | people were exposed to airborne contaminants. | Water pollution happens when contaminants such as chemicals, sewage. | Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, |
| contributors | Hunt was the largest contributor of hymns to these collections | Some major contributors include industries | He had some support from the French contributors |
| respiratory | respiratory disease | Air pollution can lead to respiratory diseases like asthma and contribute to climate change, | The respiratory system of birds moves oxygen across the pulmonary surface during both inhalation and exhalation, making it more efficient than that of mammals. |
Level Three: Inference (Use information and clues from the article to form conclusions)
Mostly everything that happens is caused by humans. They throw their rubbish anywhere and the wind blows it to the sea causing pollution. |
- What are some impacts that water pollution could have on marine animals?
| Worldwide, hundreds of marine species have been negatively impacted by marine debris, which can harm or kill an animal when it is ingested or they become entangled, and can threaten the habitats they depend on. |
- Why is light pollution harmful to wildlife?
| resulting in them not being where they should be, concentrating them as a food source to be preyed upon, or just resulting in a trap which exhausts and kills them. |
Level Four: Beyond the Text (Using what we know, and what we have learned to express an idea or an opinion)
- How do you think pollution affects the quality of life for people living in heavily polluted areas? Explain, and give examples of how they are affected.
| exposure to particulate matter for a long time can lead to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, COPD, lung cancer and heart attack. |