Types of Water Pollution 1
This is the term for any physical or chemical change in water that adversely affects the health of humans and other organisms.
What is water pollution?
This occurs when industries release heated water and increase the temperature of a body of water unnaturally
What is thermal pollution?
This is water pollution that can be traced to a specific origin.
What is point source pollution?
This is a term for when pollutants enter bodies of water over large areas rather than being concentrated at a single point of entry.
What is nonpoint source pollution?
This is an excessive amount of suspended soil particles in water that limits light penetration.
What is sediment pollution?
These are two of the eight types of water pollution.
What is sewage, disease-causing agents, sediment pollution, inorganic plant and algal nutrients, organic compounds, inorganic chemicals, radioactive substances, or thermal pollution?
This is a section of ocean or sea in which oxygen has been depleted to the point that most animals/bacteria cannot survive; caused by runoff and chemical fertilizers of plant/animal wastes.
What is a dead zone?
This type of chemistry is designed to reduce or halt the use and production of hazardous substances.
What is green chemistry?
These are the three major sources of water pollution.
What are agriculture, municipalities, and industries?
This is the process through which bodies of water acquire high concentrations of nutrients.
What is eutrophication?
This is the amount of oxygen microorganisms need to decompose biological wastes into CO2, water, and minerals.
What is biochemical oxygen demand?
These are contaminants that contain elements other than carbon; like acids, salt and heavy metals.
What are inorganic chemicals?
This is the leading source of water quality impairment of surface water nationwide.
What is agriculture?
This occurs when heavy rainfall and large snowmelt combine to overflow into nearby waterways without treatment.
What is combined sewer overflow?
This term refers to the amount of oxygen needed to decompose organic material.
What is Biological Oxygen Demand?
Name two of the most common bacterial diseases that are transmitted through contaminated food and water.
What is typhoid, cholera, bacterial dysentery, polio, and hepatitis?
These release the largest amounts of mercury into the environment.
What are coal power plants?
Name two types of water pollutants when it comes to industrial waste.
What are food processing and paper mills?
This program focuses on the study of pesticides and their degradation products.
What is the National Water Quality Assessment Program?
This is spread by ingesting food or water contaminated with pathogenic feces
What is waterborne disease?
This is the oldest and deepest lake experiencing algal blooms believed to be the product of insufficient wastewater treatment.
What is Lake Baikal in Russia?
These two populations are at an elevated risk of lead poisoning.
What are pregnant women and children?
Name two areas of Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans.
Feed management
Manure and wastewater handling/storage
Nutrient fertilizer management
Land treatment practices
Alternative manure
Wastewater management and record keeping
In India, 60% of households to do not have access to these. As a result, waste pollutes the streets and runoff brings these contaminants to rivers.
What are toilets?
These are the main sources of nutrients.
What are fertilizers and manure?