Quiz: Water Pollution

________ is an example of a watershed (an area of land that is drained by a river).

• The Mississippi River

• Pathogen

• Recharge Zone

• Nonpoint-source Pollution

• Potable

An area of the Earth's surface from which water percolates down into an aquifer is called?

• Recharge Zone
• Pathogen
• Nonpoint-source Pollution
• Potable
• Mississippi River

Most water must be treated to be _________ or safe to drink. An example of treated water that is safe to drink is bottled water.

• Potable
• Pathogen
• Recharge Zone
• Nonpoint-source pollution
• Mississippi River

Organisms that can cause illness such as, bacteria are called ______________.

• Pathogen
• Recharge Zone
• Nonpoint-source pollution
• Potable
• Mississippi River

This type of pollution, ________________________, comes from many different sources that are often difficult to identify.

• Nonpoint-source Pollution
• Pathogen
• Recharge Zone
• Potable
• Mississippi River

Eutrophication caused by human activities such as, fertilizer runoff is called

• Artificial Eutrophication
• Pathogen
• Recharge Zone
• Nonpoint-source pollution
• Potable

________________________ is a law that was designed to improve water quality.

• 1972 Clean Water Act
• Pathogen
• Recharge Zone
• Nonpoint-source pollution
• Potable

__________________ is water beneath the Earth's surface that percolates through the soil and down into the rocks.

• Groundwater
• Pathogen
• Recharge Zone
• Nonpoint-source Pollution
• Potable

Most of the oil that pollutes the ocean comes from

• Operating boats and personal watercraft
• Spills from oil tankers
• Runoff from cities and towns
• Leaking underground storage facilities

Water pollution that is generated from one specific place is called

• point source pollution
• biological pollution
• nonpoint source pollution
• thermal pollution