Type of land use that prevents soil infiltration, resulting in lower recharge of groundwater.
What is a urban/residential area?
100
Water from plants changing into a gaseous state due to heat.
What is transpiration?
100
3 types of sustainable irrigation.
What is gravity flow, drop irrigation, and center pivot?
100
Excessive heat is this type of water pollution.
What is thermal pollution?
100
Treatment that involves the physical removal of wastes.
What is primary treatment?
200
Region of the United States with the highest amount of groundwater extraction.
What is the south/ midwest?
200
Particles that water vapor needs to condense onto in order to turn into clouds.
What is cloud condensation nuclei?
200
The individual matters in terms of what can be done to help reduce water pollution. All of the following are things we can do, except
a. Fertilize gardens and lawns with manure or compost instead of fertilizers.
b. Minimize use of pesticides.
c. Prevent yard wastes from entering storm drains
d. Do not flush unwanted medicines down the toilet.
e. Buy commercially produced foods.
What is answer e?
200
Pollution that has been discharged from multiple sources. Example: Eutrophication from intensive agriculture
What is nonpoint source pollution?
200
2 things we do to leftover sludge from treatment processes.
What is deposited into landfill and used as fertilizers?
300
Causing water tables to fall in India, China, Saudi Arabia, and the United States?
What is crop irrigation?
300
The water aka hydrologic cycle provides the earth with these services.
What is water collection, purification, and distribution?
300
A process in which salt is removed from sea water to create fresh water.
What is desalinization?
300
An example of this type of pollution is: an unlined landfill leeches Mercury into a watershed after heavy rain.
What is point source pollution?
300
The final process at a water treatment plant.
What is disinfection/chlorination?
400
4 effects of extensive groundwater extraction.
What is drying up of wells, land subsidence, lower water quality, and salt water intrusion?
400
This process of the water cycle will increase when ground becomes impermeable.
What is surface runoff?
400
This type of industry is responsible the majority of water use in the United States.
What is agriculture?
400
Reason why fish die during eutrophication.
What is no oxygen caused from the lack of photosynthesis due to the blockage of the sun.
400
Suspended solids settle out as sludge in this process of physical treatment.
What is grit chamber?
500
Land uses such as wetlands and forests allow for the recharge of groundwater because
What is infiltration/permeability of soil?
500
Process that increases when dams are built and water is stored behind a dam in the open environment.
What is evaporation?
500
A type of desalinization in which salt water is passed through microfibers to filter out fresh water.
What is reverse osmosis?
500
Human and animal wastes are discharged into a stream. Microbes in the stream quickly decompose and break down the waste. This leads to an increase in...
What is biological oxygen demand?
500
During activated sludge, this component is necessary in the process to allow for the decomposition of organic materials by bacteria.