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Point and nonpoint pollution
Vocabulary
Major water Pollutants
Toxic Chemicals
Mixed Questions
100
Pollution that comes from a particular source.
What is Point source pollution?
100
Human- generated liquid pollution that flows from homes, buisnesses, and industries; also called wastewater.
What is sewage?
100
Sewage
What is the second largest source of water pollution?
100
The most common and dangerous organic pollutant.
What is Petroleum?
100

A leaking underground storage tank containing this fuel is a point source.

What is gasoline?

200
Pollution that can not be traced back to a specific source.
What is non-point source pollution?
200
Heat added to water by humans that cause ecological changes.
What is thermal pollution?
200
Sewage treatment plant.
What is a place to clean waste out of water
200
This causes brain, liver, and kidney diseases.
What is Bioaccumulation?
200

These types of agricultural operations, often called CAFOs, are considered point sources.

What are concentrated animal feeding operations? Ex hog farms?

300
two examples of nonpoint source pollution.
What is farming, logging and construction?
300
Water that carries the pollutants into rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water.
What is runoff?
300

The greatest threat to aquatic life and water that decreases oxygen.

What is sewages ?

300
Name 3 inorganic toxic chemicals.
What is lead, mercury, sulfur, nickel, and arsenic?
300

This type of air pollution acts as a nonpoint source when it falls into water.

What is acid rain?

400

Pouring waste into water directly and tanker ships leaking waste.

What are two examples of point source pollution?

400

The process by which toxic chemical compounds accumulate through the food chain.

What is Bioaccumulation? or Biomagnification?

400

These can be planted along stream banks to prevent erosion and filter runoff.

What are native plants/trees/shrubs?

400
When people eat fish, this is what they put in their bodies.
What is mercury?
400

Fertilizer runoff from these three common locations: residential, rural, and recreational.

What are lawns, farms, and golf courses? 

500

This pollution type is easier to control. 


What is point source pollution?

500

An intestinal infection marked by severe diarrhea.

What is Dysntery?

500

The process by which plant nutrients increase plant growth and decrease avaliable oxygen.

What is Eutrophication?

500

Salt applied to roads in winter: Point or Nonpoint?

What is Nonpoint pollution? 

500

This term refers to the land area that drains into a specific body of water.

What is a watershed?