Environment Issues

Student Worksheet for Classroom or Homeschool Covers:

Industrial pollution such as smog is a type of air pollution consisting mostly of a mixture of sulphur dioxide. The suspended droplets of sulphuric acid are formed from some of the sulphur dioxide, and a variety of suspended solid particles.

Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas that is poisonous to (air-breathing) humans and animals and is formed during the incomplete combustion of carbon-containing fuels.

Urbanization is formed when a large number of people move into a city area, often caused by natural increase (more births than deaths) and by immigration, mostly from rural areas.

A bushfire is a wild fire in the bush, scrub or forest, either deliberately lit or started by accident such as by lightning.