Water Quality Lesson

measure the saltiness of water and is expressed in parts impurity per thousand parts water

• Conductivity

• pH

• Salinity

• Turbidity

pollutants entering waterways from a general area, such as runoff from farmland or suburban communities

• Pollution
• Point Source Pollution
• Non-point Source Pollution
• Turbidity

How could pesticides get into lakes and streams?

• too much could be used
• it could be sprayed too close to a stream
• rain could wash pesticides into a stream
• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

pollution from a definable source

• Pollutant
• Pollution
• Non-point Source Pollution
• Point Source Pollution

If gasoline or oil or trash goes into a storm drain in the street, it goes directly...

• to the sewage treatment plant

• into the river

• to groundwater

• none of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

presence of abnormally high concentrations of harmful substances in the environment, often put there by people

• Pollution
• Pollutant
• Water Quality
• Turbidity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

an area of land that is drained by a specified river or other body of water

• Marsh
• Estuary
• Watershed
• Tidal Pool

Water with high turbidity 

• is cloudy and hard to see through
• is clear

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is A?

• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Precipitation
• Runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is B?

• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Precipitation
• Runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4