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Pollution
Rivers
Wetlands
Miscellaneous
Groundwater
100
A type of pollution that you can POINT to and see where it is entering the water supply.
What is Point Source Pollution?
100
The place where a river begins.
What is its headwaters?
100
A piece of land that has an inch or more of water on it for most of the year.
What is a wetland?
100
Gives energy to the food chain.
What is the sun?
100
The upper boundary of the zone of saturation or the upper level of groundwater.
What is the water table?
200
When an animal's waste is washed into a nearby stream or river.
What is Non-point Source Pollution?
200
A small branch of a river that joins a larger branch.
What is a tributary?
200
Three types of wetlands.
What is a bog, marsh, swamp, or salt marsh?
200
Things that make their own food.
What are producers?
200
An underground bed of saturated soil and rock that holds water and allows the flow of water.
What is an aquifer?
300
When a factory dumps waste into a nearby stream or river through a pipe.
What is Point Source Pollution?
300
The initials D.O. stand for this.
What is dissolved oxygen?
300
Wetlands are home to many of these.
What is an animal?
300
Rely on other things for food.
What are consumers?
300
Water that has run-off because it came in contact with this type of surface.
What is impermeable?
400
Fertilizer run-off causes this specific type of pollution called
What is nitrate pollution?
400
The river has only Taxa III organisms in it. (Midge Fly larva, Pouch snails, and aquatic worms.
What is an unhealthy river?
400
The largest freshwater wetland in the United States.
What is the Everglades?
400
All of the land area surrounding a body of water that drains into that body of water.
What is a watershed?
400
Two ways that groundwater can become polluted.
What is oil spills, fertilizer run-off, logging, farming.
500
The most common type of water pollution in Pennsylvania.
What is Acid Mine Drainage or AMD?
500
At the mouth of a river, deposition in the shape of a fan might form.
What is a delta?
500
Three reasons wetlands are beneficial to people.
What is they help prevent flooding. They clean or filter polluted water, and they are great sources of food.
500
Two ways AMD can be treated.
What is buffered through limestone and filtered through a wetland?
500
An underground spring that comes out of the ground forcefully on its own.
What is an artesian well?