Water resources
Water use
Water pollution
Types and Solutions
Vocabulary
100
This type of water is found in lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands.
What is surface water?
100
What are the three major uses of water?
What are residential use, agricultural use, and industrial use?
100
This type of pollution comes from many types of sources that are often difficult to identify.
What is nonpoint -source pollution?
100
Temperature increase in a body of water reduces the amount of oxygen in aquatic environments.
What is thermal pollution?
100
Pollution discharges from a single source. Example: gasoline tank.
What is point source pollution?
200
This is a flowing network of water.
What is a river system?
200
This includes both physical and chemical treatment methods that include filtration, chlorination, and aeration.
What is drinking-water treatment?
200
This is a type of pollution that consists of disease-causing organisms such as bacteria or parasitic worms.
What is a pathogen?
200
37 million gallons of this finds its way into the ocean each year.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
What is oil pollution?
200
An area of land that drains into a river.
What is a watershed?
300
The ability of rock or sediment to let fluids flow through open spaces.
What is permeable?
300
A body of rock or sediment that holds ground water and allows it to flow.
DOUBLE-JEOPARDY!
What is an aquifer?
300
This is a product of wastewater treatment which is solid and contains dangerous concentrations of toxic chemicals.
What is sewage sludge or sludge?
300
When polluted surface water percolates down.
What is ground-water pollution?
300
Phosphates in laundry detergent contribute to this process that increases the amount of nutrients in a body of water.
What is eutrophication or artificial eutrophication?
400
The way most water vapor enters the atmosphere.
What are evaporation and transpiration?
400
This type of system offers a promising step toward conserving water from evaporation, seepage, and runoff; by delivering small amounts of water directly to the plants root.
What is a drip irrigation system?
400
The goal of the Clean Water Act.
What is preventing water pollution in the United States?
400
Water that contains waste from homes or industries and is treated to make it clean enough to return to a river or a lake.
What is wastewater?
400
This is an area above an aquifer where water will percolate.
What is a recharge zone?
500
What are the three methods used to disinfect wastewater at the treatment plant?
What is chlorine, ozone, and UV light?
500
This is the amount of water used by the average American per day.
What is 80 gallons?
500
This process has alarming consequences which allows pollutants to build up at high levels in the food chain (secondary consumers).
What is biomagnification?
500
This is the process of removing salt from water to make it potable.
What is desalination?
500
An example is a bottle of water.
What is potable?
600
What is the relationship from the data in the graph below?
As sewage water increases, oxygen content decreases.
600
The primary purpose of dams.
What is generate electricity?
600
The PRIMARY source of carbon dioxide (CO2) contributing to ocean acidification.
What is burning fossil fuels?
600
The impact of placing grass clippings and yard waste into a landfill.
What is stoping the natural process of recycling organic compounds.
600
The federal organization responsible for ensuring the safety of our drinking water.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?