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Environmental Pollution                                       

  • Environment: Land, water, air and our surroundings make our environment.
  • Pollution: Pollution is a harmful change in our environment.
  • The substances which cause pollution are called pollutants.
  • There are three main type of pollution.            (1) Air Pollution   (2) Land Pollution  
    (3) Water Pollution
  • Air pollution causes Asthma, skin and eye allergies, headache and lung diseases.
  • Ozone layer protects earth from the sun harmful rays.
  • Air pollution is the main cause of depletion of ozone layer.
  • Bio-degradable Materials: Those materials which degraded by nature. Example of Bio-degradable materials are dead animals, plants, and left over foods.
  • Non-Biodegradable materials: Those materials cannot be degraded by natural methods. Plastic bags, empty cans, electricity wire, fused bulbs and broken parts of machines are no biodegradable materials.
  • The main cause of air pollution is burning of fuels.
  • The 3R are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.


Things around us make our……….
a) Habitat
b) Environment
c) Colony
d) Home

b

Living things get from their environment.
a) Food
b) Oxygen
c) Water
d) All above

d

The addition of harmful and unwanted materials in the environment are called;
a) Sanitation
b) Pollution
c) Global warming
d) None of these

b

The unfavorable alteration of environment due to human activities is termed as…
a) Ecological disturbance   
b) Pollution
c) Catastrophe
d) All of these

b

Substances that cause pollution are called……
a) pollution
b) Polly
c) pollutants
d) all of these

c