1. Pollution and Bio indicators

2. What are examples of pollution?
Air pollution
Waste products
Climate change- acid rain, acid snow
Waterway contamination
Human health – smog/ allergies
Land and ground water contamination
Noise pollution
Odor

3. Point Source Pollution
A form pf pollution that you can point to and say “that is where the pollution is coming from.

4. Non-Point Source Pollution
This is when there is pollution in a water source that you can not find a specific point where it is being polluted. Maybe there are several areas that are all contributing to the pollution.

8. Run-off
Percolate

10. What are bio Indicators?
Things within the environment that tell us the health of the ecosystem.

11. Bio Indicators
Dissolved Oxygen levels
Smell
Nitrogen levels
Color
Life- Number of Species
Hardness
Light – Turbidity pH
Secchi disc
Salinity
Suspended Sediment