Watershed
The area of land that separates two different watersheds is known by this term.
What is a divide or boundary?
A rock that prevents water from going further into the ground is known to be this.
What is impermeable?
Pollution that comes from a specific site.
Litter from a city that ends up in a waterway is an example of this "broad" type of pollution because you cannot point to one single source.
The top part of the saturated zone.
What is the water table?
Pollution that comes from many sites rather than a single site.
A factory dumping toxic waste through a specific pipe directly into a river is an example of this type of pollution.
Lake Houston is classified as this type of water because it is found on top of the Earth's surface.
What is a surface water?
Water that flows underground.
What is an aquifer?
Surface water pollution can impact groundwater
This agricultural byproduct often carried by runoff can cause excess growth of water plants and algae.
This term describes the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place.
What is a watershed?
Water running through material with large pebbles
What is permeable?
This man-made structure is dug or drilled into the ground to reach and pump out groundwater. Can pump out polluted water if aquifer contains pollutants.
If a factory is built on highly permeable soil, a chemical spill can contaminate a community's drinking water by doing this.
The area where surface water can trickle down into the ground and reach the aquifer
What is a recharge zone?
Example of a permeable rock.
What is soil, gravel, sand...?
In a student experiment, pouring colored water through a cup of gravel is a model used to demonstrate this environmental issue.