Point and nonpoint pollution
Vocabulary
Major water Pollutants
Toxic Chemicals
100
Pollution that comes from a particular source.
What is Point source pollution?
100

This vocabulary term creates a reservoir, which has water that can be used for flood control, drinking water, irrigation, recreation, industry, and hydroelectric power.

What is a Dam

100
Sewage
What is the second largest source of water pollution?
100
The most common and dangerous organic pollutant.
What is Petroleum?
200
Pollution that can not be traced back to a specific source.
What is non-point source pollution?
200
Heat added to water by humans that cause ecological changes.
What is thermal pollution?
200

Carbon dioxide contributes to climate change but is also will cause other impacts to our environment. What is the negative impact the CO2 has on the ocean?

What is a Ocean Acidification? 

200
This causes brain, liver, and kidney diseases.
What is Bioaccumulation?
300
two examples of nonpoint source pollution.
What is farming, logging and construction?
300
Water that carries the pollutants into rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water.
What is runoff?
300

What is sewage and fertilizers (Nitrogen and Phosphorous) greatest threat to aquatic life and water?

Algal Bloom which will deplete oxygen levels and create dead zones. 

300
Name 3 inorganic toxic chemicals.
What is lead, mercury, sulfur, nickel, and arsenic?
400
Two examples of point source pollution.
What is pouring waste into water directly and tanker ships leaking waste?
400

____________________ is a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater. It can be accessed by a well.

What is an Aquifer?

400

________ is often not suitable to drink because it hasn't been filtered through the soil.

What is Surface water

400
When people eat fish, this is what they put in their bodies.
What is mercury?
500
Point source pollution
What is easier to control nonpoint source pollution or point source pollution?
500

All the water that falls in a _________________ will end up in the same spot.

What is a Watershed

500
Eutrophication
What is the process by which plant nutrients increase plant growth and decrease avaliable oxygen?
500
These are where accidents with oil mostly happen.
What is along oil pipe line and oil refineries?
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