WATER POLLUTION
Any physical or chemical change in surface water or groundwater that can harm living organisms or make water unfit for certain uses is called.
What is water pollution
Water found between an impermeable and permeable rock layer is called ?
What is an aquifer
Why is normal irrigation a waste of water?
Most of it is run off or evaporates too quick to infiltrate the ground or soak back into ground.
When the temperature increase in a body of water that is caused by human activity and that has a harmful effect on water quality and on the ability of that body of water to support life is called what type of pollution?CLUE: another word for HEAT
What is thermal pollution?
What is the greatest use of water today?
What is agriculture use?
Name and Describe 3 out 5 parts of the water cycle.
Condensation, Evaporation, Precipitation,Transpiration, and Infiltration.
Water that contains unwanted materials from homes, businesses, and industries; a mixture of water and dissolved or suspended substances.
What is wastewater or sewage?
a bunch of small streams are called?
What are tributaries?
The method of treating a contaminated area by injecting it with a chemical compound that reacts with the pollutant to produce harmless products is called?
What is chemical remediation?
Excessive amounts of soil particles enter the water as a result of erosion, causing water to cloud up and prevent sunlight to start the food chain-algae to fish. Makes it harder for humans to clean water.
What is sediment pollution?
How is water used in Industry?
What is to produce electricity and cool machines?
List 2 ways we can conserve water.
Shorter Showers
Flushing Toilet
Water plants less, or plants who need less water
Only use water when needed
Pollutants discharged from a single identifiable location are called?
What is point source pollution?
An increase in the concentration of a chemical in specific organs or tissues at a level higher than would normally be expected in animals or plants.
What is bioaccumulation?
Chemicals added to water causing small particles to form clumps that cause them to sink to the bottom is called?
What is coagulation?
When water is exposed to human and animal waste. Causing the most human health problems than any other water pollution. 3.4 million people die each year from undrinkable water-contaminated, what type of pollution is this?
What is biological pollution?
What is the biggest use of water for entertainment?
What is a golf course?
What is subsidence?
When the ground level is lowered from the depletion of water in aquifers.
A type of water pollution that is accelerated by human processes, Overnourishment of aquatic ecosystems with plant nutrients (mostly nitrates and phosphates) because of human activities is called?
What is cultural eutrophication?
A method of treating groundwater with microorganisms.
What is a bioremediation
Disinfection of water by the addition of small amounts of chlorine or a chlorine compound is called?
What is chlorination?
oceans are polluted with oil, toxic chemicals, and nutrients that runoff from land this is what type of pollution?
What is ocean pollution?
What is the largest type of glacier?
What are ice caps?
Describe how a sinkhole occurs.
Water is taken out of aquifer and the water table is lowered and not replaced enough, so the ground has no more support and collapses. The water in the aquifer had provided support to the ground, but has been lowered or used up.
Water dissolves minerals and removes sediment from area and area can't support weight of above area.
What pathogens are big in untreated water?
What are cholera bacteria and guinea worms?
A poison that attacks the nervous system, causing blindness, paralysis, or suffocation is called?
What are neurotoxins?
The clumped solids sink to the bottom of the water, is called?
What is sedimentation?
Anything dumped/sprayed on the surface or buried in the ground has the potential to pollute aquifers, storage tanks, raw sewage containers is what type of pollution?
What is groundwater pollution?
What are the several small rivers that join into a larger river called
What is a tributary?
What must happen in order to clean groundwater and why.
water must be treated and the surrounding sediment and rocks, in order to not recomtanimate water again.