Point and nonpoint pollution
Vocabulary
Major water Pollutants
Toxic Chemicals
Mixed Questions
100
Pollution that comes from a particular source.
What is Point source pollution?
100
Human- generated liquid pollution that flows from homes, buisnesses, and industries; also called wastewater.
What is sewage?
100
Sewage
What is the second largest source of water pollution?
100
The most common and dangerous organic pollutant.
What is Petroleum?
100
The BP oil spill/gulf oil spill.
What is the major point source oil spill that happened in recent times?
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
Sewage treatment plant.
What is a place to clean waste out of water
200
This causes brain, liver, and kidney diseases.
What is Bioaccumulation?
200
Fill in the blank; Just two things of which you must beware: Don't ____ the water and don't ____ the air.
What is drink and breathe?
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
Decreases oxygen.
What is sewages greatest threat to aquatic life and water?
300
Name 3 inorganic toxic chemicals.
What is lead, mercury, sulfur, nickel, and arsenic?
300
Radioactive waste.
What is waste that contains or is contaminated by radioactive material?
400
Two examples of point source pollution.
What is pouring waste into water directly and tanker ships leaking waste?
400
The process by which toxic chemical compounds accumulate through the food chain.
What is Bioaccumulation?
400
Overflowing sewage plants.
What is the source that organic wastes come from?
400
When people eat fish, this is what they put in their bodies.
What is mercury?
400
death of many fish, oxygen leaves water, major pollution etc.
What is an effect of an oil spill?
500

What is easier to control: nonpoint source pollution or point source pollution?

What is Point source pollution

500

An area in the Gulf of America/Mexico marked by low oxygen levels.

What is the Dead Zone?

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?
500
The process that removes the remaining particles such as soil and organic materials.
What is Filtration?
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