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| What is the major cause of water pollution? |
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| Why was the BritishParliament sometimes forced to close during the 19th century? |
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| Pollution from the Thames River |
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| Robert Koch proved that_________are linked to disease |
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| List three diseases that are caused by contaminated water. |
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| Choler, typhiod fever, dysentery |
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| After Koch's discovery, what changed was made in the practice of watrway dumping? |
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| Had to dump in the ocean thereafter |
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| Water thatcontains organic wastes from humans and industry |
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| Is sewage from the US treated befor eit is dumped into the ocean? |
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| Is sewage from other country\ies treated before it's dumped into the ocean |
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| What does the cartoon in figure 21.1 show |
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| Bathers in Ny offended by garbage and sewage floating back to the beach from the ocean |
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| What is the one thing that sewage treatment plants do not filter out |
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| Why was the beach closed in San Diego California |
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| Pollution from Tiajuana, Mexico |
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| Parasites, Bacteria, and viruses that cause diseases in living things |
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| How do pathogens enter water systems |
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| Infected raw sewage and animal waste |
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| Name three places with the highest incidents of cholera and typhoid fever |
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| Middle Eats, Asia, Africa, India |
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| How to you get schistosomiasias? What happens? |
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| Walking barefoot through contaminateedd water. Microscopic worms settle in liver and intestines. |
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| How to get Malaria? How many people die? |
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| Mosquito Bites. One million people a year die from it. |
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| What is the largest source of water pollution |
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| Name two toxic pollutants |
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| Mercury, lead, crude oil, solvents |
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| Name one non toxic pollutant |
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| How can heat be a pollutant |
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| It can kill things around it |
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