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Largest source of water pollution
What is agricultural runoff
100
Pollution that result from nuclear power plants are
What is radioactive and thermal pollution
100
The process of purifying raw sewage is known as
What is sewage treatment?
100
Water that contains organic wastes from humans and industry
What is sewage
100
The pollutants that are associate with eutrophication
What are nitrates and phosphates
200
The process that lakes and ponds are changed by plant nutrients
What is eutrophication
200
The hatmaker disease was caused by contact with
What is mercury?
200
Crude oil is a toxic chemical that is
What is toxic?
200
A large increase in water temperature due to human activity
What is thermal pollution
200
A broad class of substances containing carbon
What are organic chemicals?
300
A facility that processes raw sewage before the sewage is returned to surface water systems
What is sewage treatment plant
300
Caused by microscopic worms
What is Schistosomiasis
300
In the first step of a sewage treatment plant what is screened
What are large particles?
300
Largest source of water pollution
What is agriculture
300
A scientist that proposed a link between contaminated water and cholera
Who was Robert Koch
400
percent of lakes in the U.S. are effected by eutrophication
What is 65%
400
In Minamata, Japan people contacted mercury poisoning by
What is eating contaminated fish?
400
The infected animal bite that causes people to be infected with malaria
What is a mosquito?
400
The second largest source of water pollution
What is sewage
400
The law prohibiting the release of any pollutant into water without a permit
What is the Clean Water Act of 1972
500
Occurs when pollutants are directly discharged into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds
What is water pollution?
500
The location of the most ecologically destructive oil spill in US occur
What is Prince William Sound
500
A synthetic organic material
What is plastic?
500
A metallic element with a high mass number
What is a heavy metal
500
The Clean Water Act does not ensure high quality water because
What is a lack of means of enforcement