Persistent organic pollutants (POPs): Toxic chemicals that resist environmental degradation and accumulate in food chains, including DDT, PCBs, and dioxins.
How to apply it: Apply POPs to explain why DDT banned in the 1970s is still found in polar bear fat in the Arctic.
Course: AP Environmental Science · Unit: Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution
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