Water Pollution
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Thermal pollution
- causes a change in tempature of water
- Organic pollution
- provides to much fertilizer leading to overgrowth of aquatic plants
- ecological pollution
- may be increased due to human influences or disturbances in the natural ecosystem
- Chemical pollution
- Introduction of toxic substance
- PH
- Indentifies substances acid contents
- Alkalinity
- ability to neutralize acids
- Hardness
- amount of calcium and magnesium from rocks shells or bones
- examples of thermal pollution
- dam/resovoir turbines
- Examples of organic pollution
- fertilizer paper mills
- examples of ecological pollution
- volcanoes landslides windstorms
- examples of chemical pollution
- nuclear waste
- acceptable ph range
- 6.5-9.5
- causes of alkalinity
- biocarbonate
- problems with alkilnity changes
- affects ph
- causes of hardness
- the calcium and magnesium from rocks
- problems with hardness
- builds up on plumbing
- Waste Water
- Used water that needs to be cleaned
- % water on earth
- 70%
- Surface water
- freah water that is above ground in lakes,ponds, rivers
- ground water
- water that seaps underground
- watershed
- the entire area of land that is drained by a river
- nonpoint source pollution
- Pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single spacific site
- Point source Pollution
- Pollution that is discharged from a single source such as a factory
- Recharge Zone
- The area of land from which the ground water originated
- aquifer
- Large amounts of water found in underground rock formation
- % water used by industries
- 50%
- % of water used by agrieculture
- 42%
- % water used by residents
- 8%
- % of water that is salt water
- 97%
- % water that is freah water
- 3%
- Examples of point source pollution
- Waste water treatment plant
- Examples of nonpoint source pollution
- lawns, farms, highways