Human Impact on Water Resources

Waste or other materials is added to water so that it is harmful to organisms that use it or live in it

• Eutrophication

• Reservoir

• Water Pollution

• Potable

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The image is an example of what type of pollution. Look at the picture carefully

• Point-Source Pollution

• Non-Point Source Pollution

• Thermal Pollution

Choose two reasons that might threaten our water supply.

• Droughts

• Overpopulation

• Typhoon

• Flooding

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Over the years, a farm area becomes more populated. Which of the following will most likely happen in the town as a result of this urbanization?

• amount of rainfall will increase

• rivers may be contaminated by sewage

• Light pollution in the town may decrease

• people will develop more farms in the town

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Added nutrients to water by human activity, such as fertilizer, is called

• Eutrophication

• Flocculation

• Reservoir

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Release of heat into the water that affects the temperature and ecosystem is an example of what

• Thermal pollution

• Chemical Pollution

• Biological Pollution

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Wastewater that gets dispose in the ocean will increase the risk of what type of pollution

• Biological

• Chemical

• Thermal

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Who monitors and protects our water quality?

• Department of Public Lands and Natural Resources

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Marine Biologist

What will most likely happen if lake water becomes polluted by humans?

• The pollution will not harm the plants or animals in the water.

• There will be more fish in the lake.

• The lake will turn into sea

• Animals in the lake will die.

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Which of the following is one-way humans pollute the hydrosphere?

• Farming and causing soil runoff

• Going on a paddle boat

• Cleaning up an oil spill

• none of these