Understanding Pollution: Protecting Our Environment for a Better Future
Answer each question to the best of your ability, using full sentences and make sure to include detail in your responses. Ensure you are using the text to locate important information that will help you provide accurate, and informative answers.
Level One: Retrieval (Locate the information in the article)
- Find a sentence from the article that explains what pollution is.
Pollution refers to the introduction of harmful substances or waste materials into the environment, causing damage to air, water, or land. |
- What are the 5 different types of pollution that are talked about in the article?
Air | Water | Land | Light | Sound |
- What are the three R’s humans can do to reduce pollution? Provide 2 examples of how humans can do these..
R… | R… | R… |
Reduce | Reuse | Recycle |
Making a smaller or less in amount,degree,size. | A container from home or school can be reuse. | Recycle is reusing a piece of Material to create an object. |
Level Two: Vocabulary (Understanding unfamiliar words)
Word | Definition | What sentence did you find it in? | Use it in your own sentence |
deterioration | When something useful becomes a waste and also less useful. | It can also lead to the deterioration of ecosystems and contribute to climate change. | The milk bottle deteriorated after it was fully used. |
emissions | Emissions are something that can come out of an exhaust
pipe and when they flow out they make air pollution. |
Common sources include car emissions, factories, and burning fossil fuels. Air pollution can cause respiratory problems and damage the ozone layer. | Emissions are very dangerous for humans because if humans breathe in bacteria it can seriously kill a person because it has little material that can destroy a human lung. |
contaminants | Can be a type of substance as an example there are 4 type of contaminants which is chemical,microbial,physical and allergenic. | Water pollution happens when contaminants such as chemicals, sewage, or plastics enter our rivers, lakes, and oceans. | Contaminants can make water pollution as little substance can infect the water. |
Pollution | Pollution is almost like a virus but different types of pollution as an example like air pollution that can make it hard for us to breath. | Pollution can come from various sources. | Pollution is dangerous for human quality as it can infect and kill us. There is a lot of pollution like water pollution, air pollution,light pollution,land pollution and sound pollution. |
environment | Environment is a place where humans live. There are different types of environment. | As Year 6 students, we have a responsibility to protect our environment and ensure a sustainable future for all | My favourite type of environment is a countryside it’s because it quite. |
Level Three: Inference (Use information and clues from the article to form conclusions)
- Explain why humans are primarily responsible for pollution?
The reason for that is because humans have been creating plastic which after plastic has been used most people would litter it that then starts to go in the water then those little substances spread into the water. |
- What are some impacts that water pollution could have on marine animals?
Plastic is dangerous for seals,turtles and sharks because when these marine animals start to get hungry it will try to find food and when it sees a type of plastic it could swallow it making it hard for the marine animal to breath then suddenly suffocate by the plastic. |
- Why is light pollution harmful to wildlife?
Light Pollution can harm animals because it disrupts the wild life pattern causing it to be dangerous for the animal. |
Level Four: Beyond the Text (Using what we know, and what we have learned to express an idea or an opinion)
- How do you think pollution affects the quality of life for people living in heavily polluted areas? Explain, and give examples of how they are affected.
The quality of life will start to fade away because of air pollution. Air Pollution can kill us humans and animals because humans sometimes burn this plastic and sometimes there’s little ink in it. When we burn these little substances will create smoke and in that smoke we sometimes breathe in and that’s what kills us. |