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If you've read our articles on water pollution and air pollution, you'll know that pollution can be defined generally along these lines: it's the introduction (1) __________. the environment of substances that don't (2) _____________ belong there, which, in great enough concentrations, can have harmful effects on plants, animals, and (3) ___________ . We can define land (4) _______either narrowly or broadly. Narrowly defined, it's another term for soil (5) ________ also define it more (6)__________ to include garbage and industrial wasta agricultural pesticides and fertilizers, impacts (7) ____________ mining and other forms of industry, the unwanted consequences of urbanization, and the systematic destruction of soil through over-intensive agriculture; we'll take (8) ____________ pollution to mean any kind of long-term land damage, destruction, degradation or loss. There are (9) ____________ different ways of permanently changing the land, from soil contamination to general urbanization. Some, such as huge landfills or quarries, are very obvious; others, such as atmospheric deposition are much (10) _____________ apparent |