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What is Pollution?

What is Pollution?. What or who causes it?. What can we do about it?. What are a few different types of pollution?. What are a few different types of pollution?. Land. Water. Air. Water pollution is close to us in Michigan. We have lots of water!. the great lakes. Polluted Areas.

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What is Pollution?

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  1. What is Pollution? • What or who causes it? • What can we do about it? • What are a few different types of pollution?

  2. What are a few different types of pollution? Land Water Air

  3. Water pollution is close to us in Michigan. We have lots of water!

  4. the great lakes

  5. Polluted Areas

  6. Cuyahoga River – 1950’s

  7. Pollution makes terrible things happen.

  8. It harms us.

  9. Clean water act - 1972 Agreement between Canada and the United States to reduce the amount of pollution going into the Great Lakes. One of the first attempts to clean up the terrible conditions of the Great Lakes.

  10. Continuing research Ships like the “Lake Guardian” are research vessels that are designed to monitor pollution in the great lakes.

  11. Even Dr.Seuss talked about the conditions of the great lakes • You’re glumping the pond where the humming-fish hummed! No more can they hum for their gills are all gummed. So I’m sending them off. Oh, their future is dreary. They’ll walk on their fins and get woefully weary in search of water that isn’t so smeary. I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie

  12. Writing Activity • Write a short poem about the great lakes and why you think its important to keep them clean. • Try to use rhyming. • HAVE FUN!

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