Cause and Effect
What is the cause of loss of trees on the beach.
Construction
At the end, the water clarity came to be an increase or decrease?
What is Decrease?
When too much sediment fills the water, it blocks ________ from coming through the water.
What is sunlight?
The body of water that gives the Chesapeake Bay ¼ of their sediment loads
What is the Susquehanna River?
How has sediment pollution been killing life in the Chesapeake bay for many years?
It prevents sunlight from getting in the water and it creates dead spots where plants and animals have no oxygen
What is the cause of runoff
erosion
three decades of data show ___________ in water clarity
A) Improvement
B) Decreasing
What is Improvement?
What is Turbidintidy?when a body of water like a lake, river, or stream becomes cloud-looking or brown due to too much sediments or other tiny particles.
What is Turbidintidy?
This dam used to hold sediment for the Chesapeake Bay
What is the Conowingo Dam?
What are some things people are doing to reduce sediment pollution?
Restoration
what causes burnt up plants leaving open soil.
Fires.
This year has the best grade out of all the years
What is 2016?
What happens if a single fish gets contaminated by sediments?
All the fish and other organisms could die due to contamination from that single fish.
In this year it was reported that the dam could no longer trap sediment for the Chesapeake Bay
What is 2012?
What might happen to all life in the bay if we don’t help clean and restore the water quality?
Death