Water Resources
What is the largest aquifer in the United States?
Ogallala Aquifer.
Name three types of water pollution.
Sewage, disease-causing agents, sediment pollution, inorganic plant and algal nutrients, organic compounds, inorganic chemicals, or thermal pollution.
What is air pollution?
Air pollution is an amalgamation of natural and man made substances in the air.
How are X-Rays different from Gamma Rays?
They have lower energy levels and are less penetrating.
What is a global shift in long term weather patterns?
Climate change.
What is a barrier that runs across a river or stream to control the flow of water?
A dam.
What act set uniform federal standards for drinking water?
Safe Drinking Water Act.
Which individuals are most vulnerable to health effects of air pollution?
Children and immuno compromised individuals.
How do Non-Ionizing radiation and Ionizing radiation differ?
Non-Ionizing radiation has a low frequency and Ionizing radiation has a high frequency.
Name a human activity the adds carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Driving your car, deforestation, industry, factories.
Impermeable rock makes this type of aquifer difficult to access.
Contained aquifer.
How is the Presence of E.Coli tested in the water?
The fecal coliform test.
What are the two different categories of air pollution?
Outdoor air pollution and indoor air pollution.
How can a nuclide be distinguished?
A nuclide can be distinguished by its atomic mass, atomic number, and energy state.
Some small island nations are panning on relocating due to this.
Sea level rise.
What is the process of removing the salt from salt water?
Desalination.
What’s the difference between organic and inorganic chemicals.
Organic chemicals include carbon atoms.
What is the biggest way individuals contribute to air pollution?
Woodstoves and fireplaces.
What type of radiation does a microwave emit?
Non ionizing radiation .
The process which inferred radiation is reflected back to the surface of the Earth.
Greenhouse effect.
What is a person’s water footprint?
Their total daily per capita use of freshwater.
What is the massive clump of waste that is flowing through the Pacific Ocean?
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
How fast has air pollution grown in the last 5 years?
Outdoor air pollution has grown 8% globally in the last 5 years.
When is an isotope radioactive?
An isotope is radioactive if its nuclei is unstable and breaks. down at a constant rate over time.
This greenhouse has is 32x more potent than carbon dioxide.
Methane.