Water Quality
What is temperature?
This is known as the amount of oxygen found in water.
What is dissolved oxygen?
These type of organisms do very well in polluted conditions.
What is tolerant?
This is a small amount of water collected from a specific location and time to test for various water quality parameters.
What is a water sample?
This is a measurement of how acidic or basic a substance is.
What is pH?
An increase in dissolved oxygen levels can indicate that temperature of water is...
What is "colder"?
This is the measurement of organic and fertilizer matter in water.
What are nitrates and phosphates?
These are organisms that can survive in polluted water, but prefer good stream quality.
What is intermediate?
These are the two types of water quality tests.
What are "chemical" and "biological" tests?
An excess of nutrients, fertilizer, nitrates and phosphates in water is due to this process.
What is eutrophication?
Organisms that cannot survive in polluted waters are said to be...
What is intolerant?
Water quality is used to determine whether water is...
What is "safe for human use, aquatic life, and the environment"?
High turbidity impacts aquatic life by...
These seasons can cause dissolved oxygen levels to DECREASE.
What is spring and summer?
The deeper you go in a body of water, the water temperature becomes...
What is "colder"?
These get dumped into bodies of water due to run off from eutrophication.
What are "nutrients" AND/OR "fertilizer"?
These seasons can cause dissolved oxygen levels to INCREASE.
What is fall and winter?
Healthy/pure water has a pH of...
What is 7.0?
What are organisms used to monitor the health of an environment.
What is bio-indicators?