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Define the terms pollution and pollutant.
What are the sources of air pollution?
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Answer:
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light.
A pollutant is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource.
The main sources of pollution are household activities, factories, agriculture and transport. Once they have been released into the environment, the concentration of some pollutants is reduced by dispersion, dilution, deposition or degradation.
Explanation:
Pollution can be defined as the contaminants in the environment that cause adverse change.
The substances that cause pollution are called pollutants
Air pollution is caused by
the smoke coming out from vehicles
smoke coming out from factories
burning of wood
wind dust