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Zoology · Ch 13 — Environmental Issues

Pollution

13.1

Pollution

Pollution is any undesirable change in the physical, chemical, or biological make-up of the environment, and it can arise from natural causes as well as from human activities. The substances or agents responsible for causing this undesirable change are called pollutants. Pollution is classified according to which part of the environment it affects, and it is grouped, broadly, into three kinds -- air, water, and soil pollution …