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| How are algal blooms formed and what are the consequences? |
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| Fertilizer run-off causes algal blooms to form and depletes dissolved oxygen causing creatures to die from suffocation. |
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| What elements in fertilizer cause run-off to be harmful to nearby waters? |
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| What is the major cause of oil pollution? |
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| Nearby cities and town. NOT accidents! |
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| What percentage of oil pollutions is caused by accidents? |
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| An area in underwater ecosystems where nothing can live that requires oxygen. |
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| Phosphorus and nitrogen in fertilizer run-off cause algal blooms, and oxygen is depleted as a result of decompostion of algae. |
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| Tertiary wastewater treatment |
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| is the final cleaning process that improves wastewater quality before it is reused, recycled or discharged to the environment. This is commonly done by using wetlands to further filter and purify. |
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| What is the product of waste water treatment? |
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| Can sewage sludge be recycled? |
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| Yes. It is commonly used as fertilizer and to make bricks. However, the main issue is that it is too toxic to reuse. |
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| Artificial eutrophication |
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| "Too many nutrients" (commonly phosphorus and nitrogen) caused by human activity. |
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| The method by which a controlled amount of water is used regularly to water agriculture. |
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| Which type of irrigation has proven to be highly inefficient due to evaporation? |
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| High-pressure overhead irrigation systems. |
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| Why is drip irrigation beneficient? |
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| It involves high preforated tubing, watering near roots, limiting evaporation |
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| the area of land that is drained by water |
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| The area of land that is permeable and porous to water, allowing aquifers to be replenished. |
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| Pollution that comes from a specific site, and can often be identified. |
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| Non-point source pollution |
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| pollution that comes from many sources and is mostly carried to major water ways and oceans by run-off. |
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| Most of the fresh water on earth is |
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| frozen in ice caps and glaciers |
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| "Desalting water," very inefficient so not commonly practiced. |
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all the bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow, that are found above the ground.
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the water that is beneath the Earth’s surface.
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| Please know how to read a food chain. |
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| (Arrow directions; "arrows point to whose mouth they're going into") |
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•is the accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain. |
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is a temperature increase in a body of water that is caused by human activity and that has harmful effect on water quality and on the ability of that body of water to support life.
Thermal pollution can occur when power plants and other industries use water in their cooling systems and then discharge the warm water into a lake or river.
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| a flowing network of rivers and streams draining a river basin |
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a body or rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.
They are an important water source for many cities. |
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Porosityis the percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces.
Permeabilityis the ability of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through it open spaces or pores.
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| To supply dry regions with water, all or part of a river can be diverted into canals that carry water across great distances |
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| Causes of groundwater pollution |
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Pollutants usually enter groundwater when polluted surface water percolates down from the Earth’s surface
Pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizer, and petroleum products are common groundwater pollutants |
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| The Clean Water Act of 1972 |
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was to designed to “restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation’s waters
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