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PBS LearningMedia: Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage

supported by the National Science Foundation
content provider: the Kentucky Educational Television
published by the WGBH Educational Foundation

This short video discusses how metals present in acid drainage will separate out of solution to pollute water and pose a danger for drinking. In this case, investigators discuss the water near an abandoned coal mine in Eastern Kentucky. Although the water appears clean, it is too acidic to support life, and will threaten aquatic organisms in a river further downstream.

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
General Physics - Properties of Matter Other Sciences - Chemistry - Environmental Science	- Middle School - High School - Informal Education	- Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2007 WGBH
Keywords:: acidic water, ionic bonding, pH level, pH testing, solubility, water pollution, water pollution video, water quality
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created June 27, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: August 19, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: December 30, 2007
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)

4. The Physical Setting

4D. The Structure of Matter

6-8: 4D/M4. The temperature and acidity of a solution influence reaction rates. Many substances dissolve in water, which may greatly facilitate reactions between them.
6-8: 4D/M10. A substance has characteristic properties such as density, a boiling point, and solubility, all of which are independent of the amount of the substance and can be used to identify it.
6-8: 4D/M11. Substances react chemically in characteristic ways with other substances to form new substances with different characteristic properties.

5. The Living Environment

5D. Interdependence of Life

6-8: 5D/M1b. The world contains a wide diversity of physical conditions, which creates a wide variety of environments: freshwater, marine, forest, desert, grassland, mountain, and others. In any particular environment, the growth and survival of organisms depend on the physical conditions.
9-12: 5D/H3. Human beings are part of the earth's ecosystems. Human activities can, deliberately or inadvertently, alter the equilibrium in ecosystems.

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<a href="https://psrc.aapt.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=11272">Kentucky Educational Television, and National Science Foundation. PBS LearningMedia: Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, December 30, 2007.</a>

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(WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, 2007), WWW Document, (https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/watsol.sci.ess.water.envimp/environmental-impact-of-acid-mine-drainage/).

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PBS LearningMedia: Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage (WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, 2007), <https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/watsol.sci.ess.water.envimp/environmental-impact-of-acid-mine-drainage/>.

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PBS LearningMedia: Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage. (2007, December 30). Retrieved March 17, 2025, from WGBH Educational Foundation: https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/watsol.sci.ess.water.envimp/environmental-impact-of-acid-mine-drainage/

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Kentucky Educational Television, and National Science Foundation. PBS LearningMedia: Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, December 30, 2007. https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/watsol.sci.ess.water.envimp/environmental-impact-of-acid-mine-drainage/ (accessed 17 March 2025).

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PBS LearningMedia: Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2007. 30 Dec. 2007. Kentucky Educational Television, and National Science Foundation. 17 Mar. 2025 <https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/watsol.sci.ess.water.envimp/environmental-impact-of-acid-mine-drainage/>.

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