Pathfinders
Air pollution
These research suggestions and hyperlinks to websites will help you with
your research on air pollution.
Subject headings, keywords
Pollution, air pollution, acid rain, carbon dioxide, gases, atmosphere, volcanoes, coal and oil, fossil fuels, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), sulphur, health, ozone depletion, global warming, oil spills, deforestation, air quality, aquaculture, reduction in biodiversity, climate change, sustainable energy, foreshore and seabed issues, disposal of hazardous substances, new and genetically modified organisms, transport issues, treaty and iwi issues, urban issues, waste disposal, water quality.
Dewey Numbers
333.7, 363.73, 551.2, 551.7, 612, 616.98
Reference:
Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias,
Encarta, Information file,
On-line databases and websites
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'
The following websites have information on
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/oil_spills.htm oil spills
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_oil_pollution.html oil spills oil spills
http://www.ypte.org.uk/docs/factsheets/env_facts/acid_rain.html acid rain
www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/air/breathe
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/air/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/Sustainability/Older/Air_Pollution.html air pollution
http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Waste/ waste disposal
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=30040 transport pollution
Darfield High School Library Team