Water Chemistry
Environmental Engineers
Wastewater
Water Treatment
Random
100
Particles stick to the inside of a larger particle
What is absortion?
100
The natural resource environmental engineers most deal with
What is water?
100
The first step of treatment in a wastewater treatment plant
What is primary?
100
When water passes through sand it acts as this
What is a filter
100
The first civilization to realize the benefits of environmental design
What are Romans?
200
Remediation
What is to correct something that has gone wrong?
200
The movement of people to these caused the need for environmental design
What are cities?
200
When large particles settle to the bottom of a tank
What is sedimentation?
200
This type of filter is made of charred wood and organics
What is activated carbon?
200
This cities Cholora epedimic created the world's first modern sewage system
What is London?
300
Particles stick to the outside of larger particles
What is adsortion?
300
This of the major four engineering fields is most closely associated with environmental engineering
What is civil engineering?
300
This step in the treatment process typically involves chemical additives to make water clean enough for inland water release
What is tertiary
300
This term defines what happens when smaller particles clump together into larger particles
What is coagulation?
300
Anerobic means this
What is does not need oxygen?
400
Reverse Osmosis use these to filter the water
What are membranes
400
This woman wrote a book in the 1960's that spurred the modern environmental movement
Who is Rachael Carson?
400
This step in the treatment process typically involves aerobic "bugs" that break down material
What is secondary
400
Sedimentation is the process of large particles doing this
What is settle on the bottom of a tank?
400
Name two of the three types of main waste
What is solid, hazardous and radioactive?
500
Name two ways to disinfect water
What are Heat, UV Light or Chemicals?
500
This US government agency creates a lot of the regulations environmental engineers create and abide by
What is the EPA?
500
Septic tanks consist of a tank and this to take care of the liquids
What is a leaching field?
500
Typically this chemical is added during the disinfection stage
What is chlorine?
500
This is the amount of water the US uses on a daily basis (within 10 billion)
What is 346 Billion gal.
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