Climate Change and Global Warming
What is long term shifts in weather and rainfall patterns on a global scale?
The definition of water scarcity
What is the lack of freshwater resources compared to the demand for them?
The first place water goes after leaving your home through underground pipes.
What is the wastewater treatment facility?
What is an area of land that drains into rivers and lakes which flow to a common point?
What is burning fossil fuels?
-Burning fuel to power factories
-Cars
-Buses
This sector uses the most freshwater worldwide, mainly for growing crops and raising livestock.
What is agriculture?
Tiny living things that help break down waste during secondary treatment.
What is bacteria?
Examples of a common point
What is
-rising sea levels
-shrinking mountain glaciers
-ice melting at a faster rate in Greenland, Antartica, and the Arctic
-Droughts
-Wildfires
Problem for 2.4 billion people around the world.
What is inadequate sanitation?
Name all 6 steps of wastewater treatment (don't need to explain).
Screening
Primary Treatment
Aeration/secondary treatment
Disinfection
Official release of cleaned water/discharge
Seperators for watersheds.
The natural process where atmospheric gases trap heat and keep the Earth's surface warm enough to sustain life
What is the Greenhouse effect?
This term describes using water wisely and avoiding waste.
What is water conversation?
The main reason wastewater treatment is important for protecting lakes like Ontario.
What is preventing water pollution?
These underground reservoirs store water that has traveled deep below the Earth's surface.
What are aquifers?
The difference between climate and weather.
What is the different between weather, which describes short-term conditions of the earth in a specific place (like todays temperature or rainfall), and climate, which describes long term shifts in weather and rainfall patterns?
This worldwide challenge can affect health, food supplies, and educational oppurtunities to millions of people.
What is the water crisis?
This chemical is commonly added to wastewater to kill harmful microorganisms before the water is released.
What is chlorine?
Roads, parking lots, and builds act as "fast lanes" for this type of water movement.
What is runoff?