a) What do you mean by pollution?
) What are the harmful effects of water pollution?
) Name 5 factors that may cause air pollution.
) Why industries should be far from residential area?
What happens when we throw garbage in the open?
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Answer:
Pollution is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment. These harmful materials are called pollutants. Pollutants can be natural, such as volcanic ash. They can also be created by human activity, such as trash or runoff produced by factories. Pollutants damage the quality of air, water, and land.
Destruction of biodiversity. Water pollution depletes aquatic ecosystems and triggers unbridled proliferation of phytoplankton in lakes — eutrophication —.
Contamination of the food chain.
Lack of potable water.
Disease.
Infant mortality.
Air pollutants like ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, lead cause atmospheric pollution which regards to ozone depletion, GH effect, climate change and human health effects.
Factories and industries are not allowed to be established in residential areas. 1) Pollution: Factories produced lot of pollution like noise, smoke, and different types of gases based on the type of factory. 2) Transport: Heavy vehicles come to factories for both pick up and drop of goods.
These wastes should not be thrown in an open area due to the following reasons. It spread diseases as flies and mosquitoes tend to sit on the garbage which contaminate our food. Garbage contains litter, blades, broken glass pieces, needles etc which can lead to physical injury.
Answer:
Pollution can be of any type such as noise, sound etc.. Pollution is the contamination of a specific thing.
Explanation:
*water pollution leads to many diseases such as cholera diarrhea etc...
* oil industry, agriculture industry, paper industry, chemical industry
* industries should be far from residential areas because the chemicals released by factories will be away from us