1.5 Humans and Pollution

Why Venice (or Murano) for the picture? Activity

Read the following two articles about pollution in Venice from Save the Water and The Guardian Newspaper. Discuss the impact humans can have on the environment and make a list of all of the different types of pollution you are aware of.

Venice: A Historic City Facing Modern Contamination - Save the Water™The historic city of Venice faces contamination in its canals due to sewage pipes and fragrance material contamination.

Heading to Venice? Don’t forget your pollution mask | Axel FriedrichAxel Friedrich: Venetians regularly protest against the huge cruise ships docking in the city, but mass tourism is not the only problem they bring – the toxic air they pump out is harmful to locals and visitors alike

Types of Pollution Activity

Define the following three terms:

Pollution
Point Source Pollution
Non-point Source Pollution

Construct a table to explain and give examples (use the list you created in the first activity) of the following types of pollution:

Organic
Non-organic
Persistent
Biodegradable
Acute
Chronic
Primary
Secondary

For three of your examples create an input, process, output flow chart (A systems diagram). Here is an example:

Input: Carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels --> Process: Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide --> Output: Increase in the greenhouse effect contributing to global warming and climate change

Please submit your types of pollution activity to google classroom here.

Pollution Management Activity

Contribute to the google doc below to evaluate the three levels of pollution management.

1.5 Evaluation of Pollution Management

The role of the UN in controlling pollution Extension Activity

Every year the UN get together for a climate change conference look at the four sources below and evaluate the role of the UN in pollution management. Be prepared to feedback your evaluation:

Source 1: UNFCCC Site
Source 2: UN Climate Change Twitter feed (below)
Source 3: Guardian Article (below)
Source 4: Telegraph Article (below)

UN warns of 'unacceptable' greenhouse gas emissions gapReport reveals large gap between government pledges and the reductions needed to prevent dangerous global warming

Paris climate conference: 10 reasons why we shouldn't worry about 'man-made' global warmingThe UN Climate Change Conference in Paris would have us all terrified about the future of the environment. Here's why I'm not

DDT and Malaria Case Study

Develop a case study on DDT and Malaria, use Kognity and the Oxford textbook to support you.

Remember your case studies must provide the following:

Background information
Facts and figures
Reactions and impacts

At the end of the case study answer the following question:

Explain whether or not DDT should be banned.

Please submit your case study to google classroom here.

Revision Activity

Today we are going to build our own revision google expedition. We will go out as a team and identify examples of different types of pollution and take a 360° photo (You could use one photo to represent more than one type of pollution for example it could be acute and organic). Then we will make two questions around the pollution for each question we will create the answers. We will do this on the collaborative google doc

Humans and Pollution Revision Activity

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