Guiding Questions
Which liquid dissolves salts best?
What is Water?
Groundwater
Water that is flowing underground
Deposition
Adding of sediments
Nutrients are carried to the gulf of Mexico by which river?
What is the Mississippi River?
Can using fertilizers have harmful effects on the environment?
Yes!
Runoff
Water that flows over the land after rain
Causal Relationship
When one thing effects another
How do dead zones form?
Excess nutrients in water
What happens when earth processes move soil and rocks from one place to another?
Change in landform from erosion, deposition, and weathering
Contaminant
a poisonous substance that makes something impure
Organism
Any living thing
What is one impact of a Dead Zone?
Nutrient rich water
Cannot drink or swim
Could get sick
Fewer organisms
Less fish
How can organisms living in a stream indicate water quality?
The higher the pollution tolerant organisms, the higher lower the water quality.
Erosion
Moving of sediments from one place to another
Where are the 3 places you can choose from to build a new school in BoomTown
Greenhill, Seaside Cliff, Delta Wetlands
What nutrients form the deadzones?
Mostly fertilizer and fuel
What can water quality indicate?
The impact humans are having.
Weathering
The break down of rocks from water
Mitigate
To slow down the impact of something
What can we do to improve the Dead Zone?
Reduce how much fertilizer is used AND/OR make sure run off water is treated properly