Human Impact on Groundwater and Surface water

The introduction of chemical, physical or biological agents into the water is

• Water Pollution

• Potable Water

• Desalination

• Population

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At a research lab, a scientist carelessly pours cultures of living microbes down the drain. What type of water pollution does this cause?

• Toxic

• Sediment

• Nutrient

• Bacterial

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Most of the pollution in the ocean comes from

• Commercial boats

• Leaking tankers

• Oil spills

• Waste from land

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An area of land over which water flows to a particular body of water

• Groundwater

• Contamination

• Point source contamination

• Watershed

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Pollutants introduced into surface or ground water that are without a specific location source, such as water entering a drain after flowing over a lawn that has been fertilized.

• Aquifer

• Non-point source contamination

• Eutrophication

• Surface Water

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Water that is located in the ground in the pores within rock is called…

• watershed
• surface water
• groundwater
• water cycle

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What do all the sources of groundwater contamination shown have in common?

• caused by humans so it is preventable
• naturally occurring so it cannot be prevented

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Any form of water that is above or on the Earth's surface is called

• surface water

• potable

• groundwater

• reservoir

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One way that humans could have a positive impact on local environments is to:

• generate waste products as a result of technological advances
• use resources that are renewable
• increase planting large areas of one crop
• increase the use of pesticides

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An area of land where all the water flows to one location, like a funnel. 

• Superfund Site
• Watershed
• Succession
• River

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