Unit 4 - Pollution solution

Content

• Basic facts about planet Earth.
• Air composition and properties
• Kinetic Theory of particles, as applied to gases and solutions.
• Solubility of gases, impact of the ocean as a carbon sink.
• Experimental evidence for air composition and properties
• Designing and building a hot air balloon
• Layers of atmospheres and it's function
• Greenhouse effect and global warming
• Plastic pollution has consequences for life (in sea and oceans)
• The causes, consequences and solutions for ocean plastic
• Plastic pollution in the oceans and impact on biodiversity, and food chain.

Skills and understanding

• Work experimentally with gases
• Researching skills for Earth fact-file
• Trial and error skills when building hot-air balloon
• Interpreting graphs skills
• Understand the greenhouse effect
• Understand the complexity of global pollution issues