Sources of Water
This type of water makes up 97% of all of the water on Earth.
What is salt water?
What is agriculture/growing crops/farming?
As we use up our water sources, the price of water changes in this direction.
What is increases/goes up?
Biomagnification is the process that explains why organisms at the [top/middle/bottom] of the food chain experience greater consequences due to environmental pollutants. (Choose 1)
What is top?
Water is treated so that it may become safe to drink again, a trait known as being _________.
What is potable?
[Daily Double] Most of the fresh water on Earth is still not usable because it is ________________.
What is frozen? [can take anything close to being frozen or glaciers]
When dams are built, the upper part of the river that now exists before the dam is transformed into an artificial lake called this.
What is a reservoir?
Name 3 ways you can conserve water at home.
Answers vary
A type of water pollution that comes from a single, specific source.
What is point-source pollution?
This Act was passed in 1972 in an effort to make all surface water sources safe to fish in swim in within 10 years. It also paved the way for future legislation protecting our waterways.
What is the Clean Water Act of 1972?
Name 3 examples of surface water.
Answers can include lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, oceans, etc.
What is cooling power plants?
This is the process for conserving water by removing the salt from the water.
What is desalination?
A type of water pollution often found in industries in which the water is returned back to its original location at a much warmer temperature than what it started as.
What is thermal pollution?
This act requires that all US tankers be double-hulled by the year 2015 as a way to protect US waterways from oil leaks/spills.
What is the Oil Pollution Act of 1990? [can accept just Oil Pollution Act]
Groundwater can be found stored in these bodies of rock & sediment underground.
What is an aquifer?
In the average home, most outdoor water is used for ____________ and most indoor water is used for ____________.
What is watering lawns/gardens and flushing toilets?
This is a special type of irrigation system designed to deliver water directly to the roots of plants instead of spraying water over the tops of plants in an effort to conserve water agriculturally.
What is a drip irrigation system?
[Daily Double] This type of water pollution is the most difficult to clean up.
What is groundwater pollution?
The solid, hazardous material that is left over after the water treatment process.
What is sludge?
Name the 3 stages of the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, & precipitation?
Name 2 benefits of building dams and 1 environmental problem of building dams.
Answers may include: [benefit] flood control, drinking water, irrigation, recreation, used by industries
[problem]: impact on fish populations, less nutrients in water, flood risk downstream
The process of designing landscapes to require less water than a standard yard.
What is xeriscaping?
When excess nitrogen and phosphorous get in waterways, it can lead to large increases in the population of algae. This is called _____________.
What is [artificial] eutrophication?
Briefly describe the 5 main stages of the water treatment process.
1. Filter out big objects 2. Get rid of sludge/bacteria 3. Filter out small objects 4. Put chlorine in water 5. Remove the chlorine