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1. water pillution- any phsyical, biological or chemical change in water quality that adversly affects living organisms or makes water unusable for desired uses can be considered pollution.
2. infectuous agents; oxygen demanding wastes; nutrients; inorganic salts, metals, acids and bases; organic chemicals; sediments; and thermal pollution
4.pfiesteria is a extraordinary poisonus dinoflagellate that recently has [...]

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1. point source- factories, power plants, sewage treatment plants, underground coal minesand oil wells because of discharge and pollution from specific location
2. nonpoint source- water pollutionn scattered or diffused having no specific location where they discharge into the body of water.
3. atmospheric deposition- contaminations carried by air curents and precipitation into water sheds or directly [...]

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-1/3 of worlds pop effected by water shortages and stress
-Water resources are major source of regional and international conflict
- distribution of water in globe depends on climate, high oressure zones prevailing winds and topography
-deforestation and other huamn activities effect regional water supply
- hydrolic sycle, mooves water between rhe ocean , atmosphere, [...]

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1. primary pollutants- those relased directly from the source intothe air in a hramful form.
2. secondary pollutants- modified to a hazadorus form after they enter the air mix or formd by chemical reactions
3. fugitive emissions- those that do not go through a smokestack.
4. ambient air -air around us
5. convetional or criteria pollutants- controubete to the [...]

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1. Primary- relased directly into the air in a harmful form.
Secondary- created or converted to hazardous from after they enter the atmosphere
2. Sulfer dioxide, nitrogen oxides, photochemical oxidents, Carbon monoxides, particlates, volatiles hydrocarbons and lead. Because they were regurded as the greatest threat to human health.

Some 660 more were [...]

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Air pollution
- physical or chemical changes brought about bynatural processesor human activities that result in air pollution
-primary pollutants released into the air as direct in harmful form.
-secondary created or converted to hAZARDOUS AFTER ENTER ATMOSPHERE
-Clean Air Act 1970= 7 major criteria pollutants which were reguarded as major threats to humans
-200 million americans live in areas [...]

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Case study ch 15
 
It is not fair to assume that adapting to the cost of the climate changes due to our habits in the future because it is our fault in the beginning that these conditions happened.  If there wasn’t so much pollution there wouldn’t be such problems today, now its almost like people are [...]

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