The Chesapeake Bay

Slide 1:The Chesapeake Bay and Chemistry

Slide 2:The Bay Report Card (2007) C-

Slide 3:The Bay + Chemistry • Excess Nutrients • Toxic Chemical Contaminants • Air Pollution

Slide 4:Excess Nutrients Nitrates NO 3 -1 Phosphates PO 4 -3

Slide 5:Excess Nutrients Fertilizers

Slide 6:Excess Nutrients Automobile Exhaust

Slide 7:Aren’t Nutrients Good?? Algal Blooms

Slide 8:Algae Cuts off light to Dead Waterway Underwater Plants Stop creating Dissolved Oxygen for Fish and Animals Suffocate

Slide 9:Toxic Chemical Contaminants Chemicals that will directly k