Wastewater Treatment
Water that contains waste and is nonpotable.
What is wastewater?
A large stream of moving water that carries water from one part of the ocean to another.
What is a Current?
The measure of the health of a water supply.
What is water quality?
The uppermost layer of the open ocean zone.
(Usually the first 200 meters depending on water clarity.)
What is The Photic Zone?
Large masses of ice that move slowly over land.
What are Glaciers?
Waste that sinks to the bottom of a septic tank.
What is sludge?
A process in which deep cold water rises to the surface to replace warmer water that has been blown aside by wind.
What is Upwelling?
Aquatic creatures that are sensitive to pollution and depend on specific conditions to live.
What are Bio- indicators?
The area of the ocean from the low tide line to the end of the continental shelf.
What is the Neritic Zone?
Very small bodies of water that fill during high tide then are separated from the ocean during low tide.
What are tide pools?
Runoff from streets, parking lots, and building rooftops during rainfall.
What is stormwater?
Currents that carry warm water along the surface of the ocean.
What are Surface Currents?
A dinoflagellate blamed for harmful algal blooms and fish kills in North Carolina.
What is Pfiesteria?
The entire sea floor from shore to shore that starts at the end of the Intertidal Zone and extends across the entire ocean floor.
What is the Benthic Zone?
Permanent thick layers of ice/snow coverage.
What are ice sheets?
The process in which water is either passed directly into the municipal distribution pipes or is stored in a water tower for later use.
What is distribution?
The place where upwelling occurs the most.
What are coastlines?
The measure of the degree to which water loses its transparency due to the presence of suspended particles.
What is Turbidity?
The seafloor beneath the Open Ocean Zone that extends from the base of one continental slope to the base of the opposite continental slope.
What is the Abyssal Zone?
A semi-enclosed area where freshwater from a river meets salty water from the sea.
What is an estuary?
The process of waste water treatment when chemicals are added to the water that cause sticky flocs to form.
What is Coagulation?
Currents that carry cold water from the poles toward the equator along the Benthic Zone.
What are Deep Currents?
Compounds that contain nitrogen based polyatomic ion NO3.
What are nitrates?
The region of open sea beyond the edge of the continental shelf that includes the Photic Zone, Dysphotic Zone and the Aphotic Zone.
What is The Pelagic Zone?
Porous rock layer underground that serves as a reservoir for water.
What is an aquifer?