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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Impacts with Audrey

Today Audrey taught us about the environmental impacts of fossil fuels



Vocab:

  1. air pollution: mixture if air particles  and gasses that contaminate the atmosphere
  2. Global Warming: used to described how greenhouse gasses are trapping heat waves   and raising earth's temperature
  3. Co2 emission: the production and discharge of co2 into the atmosphere
  • Coal releases methane 
  • lasts hundreds of years
  • air pollution
  • acid rain
  • mercury lead and arsenic
  • Oil emits co2 global warming
  • sulfur dioxide   acid rain
  • nitrogen oxide    respiratory
  • can also cause oil spills
  • kills of marine life and creates a marine life food web domino effect
  • gas
  • methane 
  • ethane 
  • propane
  • causes natural resources to diminish
  • can not be replaced quickly

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