Types of water pollution

What is a point-source pollution?

• Oil spilling from supertanker
• Drainpipe spilling waste into river
• Toxic Chemicals
• Single sites of waste

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

What is a Non-Point source Pollution?

• Soil from farms
• Acid rain
• Damaged Sewer Pipe or system 
• Salts from irrigation of farm fields

What is algal bloom?

• Plants bloom early down stream
• Water becomes cloudy
• Too much of nutrients
• Extremely rapid growth of algea

What is a biologic indicators?

• Insect larvae
• Many kinds of trout and mayflies
• Monitor the health of the ecosystem
• Variety of organisms clean the water

What is Pollution?

• Increase in Earths temperatures
• Sudden growth in algae in a pond
• Decrease in oxygen in water
• Harmful substance in environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A body of water that has high turbidity??

• Cloudy
• Clear
• Acidic
• Basic

Main Producers in ocean are?

• Zooplankton and water
• Small Plankton and Zooplankton
• Coral reefs and Sponges
• Algae and other microscopic organisms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following water is pH levels is best for Marine Organism?

• 1.0
• 3.5
• 8.0
• 11.5

water pollution includes

• organisms in water that cause disease

• water that is too cold

• high amounts of dissolved oxygen

• all of these options

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

which of the following might count as water pollution?

• water that is too hot

• water that has too much dissolved oxygen

• water that doesn't have enough phosphate

• water that doesn't have enough nitrate