Resources
What is a natural resource?
The amount of water used.
What is water quantity?
How a farmer affects water quality.
What is they use pesticides and fertilizers that can runoff into the water?
Water that is stored underground.
What is groundwater?
Name a renewable resource
What is water, air, plants, animals, soil?
A resource that can be used over and over
renewable resource
The cleanliness of water
What is water quality?
What is a water treatment plant?
To save or protect.
What is conserve?
Describe why a water treatment plant has a screen and then a grit remover.
What is the screen filters large pollutants, the grit remover filters smaller particles that get through the screen.
An example of a non-renewable resource.
A water use that a person uses themselves like for drinking or bathing.
What is a direct use?
Ways a farm feed lot impacts water quality.
What is large amounts of manure can get into the water and cause algal blooms?
Water that has been used by people.
What is wastewater?
What is put a cover on it so water can't escape?
What is paint the barrel a light color?
Name three types of natural resources.
What are water, air, soil, plants, animals, minerals, fossil fuels?
A water use that a person doesn't use themselves but is used for something they use. An example is farming.
What is an indirect use?
Describe how an oil spill impacts water.
What is it destroys habitat for plants and animals, it kills plants and animals, it decreases the amount of oxygen in the water?
Something that contaminates water.
What is pollutant?
How pesticides can be a problem as they move up the food chain.
What is biomagnification? The amount of the pesticide increases as it moves from prey to predator.
3 Natural resources needed to make paper
What are plants, water, fossil fuels
The three major users of water.
What are farming, industry , and power generation?
Describe a 2 ways humans can minimize impacts on water.
What is they can use organic fertilizers on their lawns, use less water in their homes, use less water on their lawns and gardens, collect rainwater in rain barrels and use it on their lawns/gardens, stop littering/do trash clean ups ....?
The reason Bald Eagles were an endangered species.
What is DDT got into their bodies and caused their egg shells to be weak?