SO Unit 02 - Water Pollution - Online class

SO Unit 2

Water Pollution

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Practice Reading Skill

Guess word's meaning based on context

Multiple Choice

Water pollution occurs when harmful substances contaminate a stream, river, lake, ocean, or other body of water, [...].

substance means:

• animals

• bacteria

• materials

• plants

Multiple Choice

Water is able to dissolve more substances than any other liquid on earth.

dissolve means:

• to make something solid

• to turn something into liquid

Multiple Choice

Groundwater gets polluted when contaminants from pesticides and fertilizers to waste of landfills and bacteria-infected systems make their way into the layers of rock and sand containing it [...].

landfills means

Multiple Choice

While plants and animals need these nutrients to grow, they have become a major pollutant due to farm waste and fertilizer runoff.

runoff means

• a further competition, election, race, etc., after a tie or inconclusive result

• the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure, etc.

Multiple Choice

Contaminants such as chemicals, nutrients, and heavy metals are carried from farms, factories, and cities by streams and rivers into our bays and estuaries; from there they travel out to sea.

estuaries means

Multiple Select

Meanwhile, marine debris particularly plastic is blown in by the wind or washed in via storm, drains and sewers.

debris means

• the remains of anything broken down or destroyed

• rubble

• trash

Multiple Choice

Meanwhile, marine debris particularly plastic is blown in by the wind or washed in via storm, drains and sewers.

sewers means

Practice Reading Skill

Skim for main ideas

Open Ended

Read the passage and answer the questions.

1. What is the definition of water pollution?

2. How many types of water pollution are there?

Practice Reading Skill

Scan for detail

Reading Exercise - Completion

• Check the word limit

• Identify the word form of the missing word

• Scan the passage for words with similar meaning, proper nouns, terms and numbers to locate the information

Practice Reading Skill

YES / NO / NOT GIVEN

YES / NO / NOT GIVEN

• Underline about 3 key information in the given statement

• Scan the passage for those key info

• TRUE - you can find all the match for the underlined key info

• FALSE - one of the underlined info contradicts the passage

• NOT GIVEN - one of the underlined info cannot be confirmed (because it is missing from the passage)

• If you write TRUE instead of YES and FALSE instead of NO, you will lose points!

Solution to water pollution

What can we do to prevent water pollution?

Refuse, Reduce, Recycle & Reuse your plastic consumption

Properly dispose of chemical cleaners, oils, and other items to keep them from going down the sewer

Take your vehicle to the maintenance regularly to prevent oil leak

Avoid applying chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides