Water cycle
What is a major way that water returns to the Earth's surface from the atmosphere?
What is Precipitation?
Water pollution that does not have a specific point of origin.
What is Nonpoint Source Pollution?
Groundwater is located in this zone
A measure of how salty water is
What is Salinity?
This type of pollution comes from an identifiable source
What is point source?
This is the process by which water turns from a liquid to a vapor
What is Evaporation?
The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces.
What is Porosity?
People use this to extract groundwater for use
What is a well?
This is the area of land drained by a stream or river
What is a watershed?
This type of pollution comes from an unidentifiable source. Examples include urban and agricultural run off
What is Nonpoint source?
___________ carries water to rivers or streams that flow into oceans.
What is runoff?
The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree celsius.
What is Specific Heat?
Permeable rock layers or sediments that transmit groundwater freely are called _____?
What is an aquifer?
The reason most of Earth's freshwater is unavailable for drinking
What is it is frozen?
This industry is responsible for the greatest amount of water pollution
What is agriculture?
During this process, water seeps into the ground
What is Infiltration?
Molecules having uneven distribution of charges.
What is Polarity?
This term refers to the top layer of the zone of saturation
What is water table?
The ocean absorbs and releases heat more ______ than land does.
What is Slowly?
Provide an example of point source pollution
fertilizers, pesticides, pollution from factories, smokestacks, discharge pipes, manure, farm waste, etc.
Plants release water into the atmosphere by this process
What is Transpiration?
Which property of water is responsible for allowing insects to walk on its surface?
What is Surface Tension?
A rapid spring snow melt in an area with a full aquifer may result in this.
What is flooding?
Which ocean is the largest?
For this reason, non point source pollution is harder to control.
What is you don't know where the pollution is coming from/ there isn't one known origin?