Aquatic Life and Water Pollution by Jamie Barker https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex List characteristics of a polluted aquatic life and what it would look like. Also, add how it happens. Then in the next column add how you can help clean up. en-us 2019-03-26 22:10:10 UTC 2026-05-18 00:37:33 UTC hello@padlet.com jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345481447 This is a picture of a clean aquatic reef would look like.]]> 2019-03-26 22:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345481447 jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345482012 This is a picture of a polluted aquatic reef. ]]> 2019-03-26 22:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345482012 Water pollution is when waste, chemicals, or other particles cause a body of water to become harmful to the fish and animals that need the water to survive. Water pollution can disrupt and negatively impact nature's water cycle as well. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345482336 2019-03-26 22:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345482336 Lots of trash. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345482864 2019-03-26 22:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345482864 Sea life starts to die. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345482913 2019-03-26 22:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345482913 Sometimes water pollution can occur through natural causes like volcanoes, algae blooms, animal waste, and silt from storms and floods. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345483439 2019-03-26 22:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345483439 A lot of water pollution comes from human activity. Some human causes include sewage, pesticides and fertilizers from farms, waste water and chemicals from factories, silt from construction sites, and trash from people littering. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345483510 2019-03-26 22:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345483510 Some of the most famous incidents of water pollution have been oil spills. One was the Exxon Valdez oil spill which occurred when an oil tanker hit a reef off the coast of Alaska and over 11 million gallons of oil spilled into the ocean. Another bad oil spill was the Deep water Horizon oil spill when an explosion at an oil well caused over 200 million gallons to spill into the Gulf of Mexico. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345483588 2019-03-26 22:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345483588 Air pollution can also have a direct effect on water pollution. When particles like sulfur dioxide get high into the air they can combine with rain to produce acid rain. Acid rain can turn lakes acidic, killing fishes and other animals. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345483683 2019-03-26 22:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345483683 Pollution in the water can reach a point where there isn't enough oxygen in the water for the fish to breathe. The fish can actually suffocate! jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484293 2019-03-26 22:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484293 Sometimes pollution affects the entire food chain. Small fishes absorb pollutants, such as chemicals, into their bodies. Then bigger fishes eat the smaller fishes and get the pollutants too. Birds or other animals may eat the bigger fishes and be harmed by the pollutants. One example of this was the use of the insecticide (bug killer) DDT. When birds of prey ate fishes that were infected with it, they would lay eggs with thin shells. The population of birds of prey began to drop until DDT was banished. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484333 2019-03-26 22:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484333 Sewage can also cause major problems in rivers. Bacteria in the water will use oxygen to break down the sewage. If there is too much sewage, the bacteria could use up so much oxygen that there won't be enough left for the fish. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484383 2019-03-26 22:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484383 Water pollution from major events like acid rain or oil spills can completely destroy marine habitats jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484437 2019-03-26 22:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484437 Save water - Fresh and clean water is a precious resource. Don't waste it! Take shorter showers, ask your parents not to water the lawn, make sure the toilet isn't running, and don't leave the faucet running. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484544 2019-03-26 22:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484544 Don't use weed killer - Ask your parents if you can pull the weeds in the yard so they don't need to use weed killer. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484665 2019-03-26 22:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484665 Scrape your plates clean into the trash and don't put grease into the kitchen drain. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484761 2019-03-26 22:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484761 Trash - Always pick up your trash, especially when at the beach, lake, or river. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484834 2019-03-26 22:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345484834 Help clean up streams. Organize or participate in stream cleanups. Ask your parents and friends to help out. Get your class or school to adopt a stream jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345485062 2019-03-26 22:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345485062 Plant vegetation along stream banks. Organize a project with your school, environmental club or Scout troop to plant trees, shrubs and grasses along stream banks. That will stabilize banks to help prevent erosion, reduce sediment, filter runoff and provide shade and wildlife habitat. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345485113 2019-03-26 22:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345485113 Recycle and dispose of all trash properly. Never flush stuff like plastic sandwich baggies or band-aids down the toilet. Things that aren’t biodegradable—that don’t break down naturally by themselves—can damage sewers and wind up littering beaches and waters. jbarker161 https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345485214 2019-03-26 22:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jbarker161/6lywl1fnb5ex/wish/345485214