water pollution

water pollution

Multiple Choice

Which water pollutant clogs the gills of fish and insects in streams?

• nutrients

• sediment

• toxins

• microbes

Multiple Choice

Drinking water is called

• influent

• effluent

• potable

Multiple Choice

Wastewater

• influent

• effluent

• potable

Multiple Choice

What percentage of US sewage goes to a wastewater treatment facility?

• 10%

• 80%

• 20%

• 90%

Multiple Choice

Solids that settle out of the wastewater

• sludge

• influent

• effluent

• slag

Multiple Choice

Chemical used to kill microbes during treatment of wastewater

• ammonia

• chlorine

• DDT

• hydrogen sulfide

Multiple Choice

tiny organisms that cause disease; can be found in wastewater

• malaria

• microbes

• protozoa

• probiotics

Multiple Choice

disease that is caused by bacteria; causes nausea and diarrhea and was studied by John Snow in London

• malaria

• cholera

• dysentery

• giardiasis

Multiple Choice

Disease transmitted by a parasite in mosquitoes; symptoms are headache, fever, vomiting

• malaria

• cholera

• giardiasis

• cryptosporidiosis

Multiple Choice

disease in which protozoan cyst enters the body and "hatches", causing nausea and diarrhea

• cholera

• malaria

• cryptosporidiosis

• dysentery

Multiple Choice

International organization that tracks pandemics

• CDC

• WHO

• EPA

• IEA

Multiple Choice

US organization that tracks epidemics and pandemic as it concerns US citizens

• CDC

• WHO

• EPA

• DEP

Multiple Choice

outbreak of a disease in ONE area

• pandemic

• epidemic

• flatten the curve

• quarantine