This document provides notes on freshwater pollution. It defines water pollution and lists the major causes as industrialization and population growth. Point pollution comes from a single source like a factory, while nonpoint pollution comes from many diffuse sources like farms and highways. Nonpoint pollution is harder to regulate as it can enter water in many ways. The notes also discuss pathogens, sludge, thermal pollution, the Clean Water Act, groundwater pollution, and that most bottled water comes from municipal tap water sources. Biological magnification can concentrate pollutants up the food chain.
This document provides notes on freshwater pollution. It defines water pollution and lists the major causes as industrialization and population growth. Point pollution comes from a single source like a factory, while nonpoint pollution comes from many diffuse sources like farms and highways. Nonpoint pollution is harder to regulate as it can enter water in many ways. The notes also discuss pathogens, sludge, thermal pollution, the Clean Water Act, groundwater pollution, and that most bottled water comes from municipal tap water sources. Biological magnification can concentrate pollutants up the food chain.
This document provides notes on freshwater pollution. It defines water pollution and lists the major causes as industrialization and population growth. Point pollution comes from a single source like a factory, while nonpoint pollution comes from many diffuse sources like farms and highways. Nonpoint pollution is harder to regulate as it can enter water in many ways. The notes also discuss pathogens, sludge, thermal pollution, the Clean Water Act, groundwater pollution, and that most bottled water comes from municipal tap water sources. Biological magnification can concentrate pollutants up the food chain.
This document provides notes on freshwater pollution. It defines water pollution and lists the major causes as industrialization and population growth. Point pollution comes from a single source like a factory, while nonpoint pollution comes from many diffuse sources like farms and highways. Nonpoint pollution is harder to regulate as it can enter water in many ways. The notes also discuss pathogens, sludge, thermal pollution, the Clean Water Act, groundwater pollution, and that most bottled water comes from municipal tap water sources. Biological magnification can concentrate pollutants up the food chain.
1.What is water pollution? The introduction of chemical, physical, or biological agents into water that degrades the quality of the water and affects organism that depend on it. 2.What are the major causes of water pollution? Industrialization and the human population explosion. 3.What is point pollution? Pollution that is discharged from a single source. Provide one example Such as a factory, a wastewater treatment plant, or an oil tanker. 4.What is nonpoint pollution? Pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single specific site. Provide one example Homes, farms, and highways. 5.Why is nonpoint pollution a more serious problem? Because it is much harder to regulate and control, it can enter the water in many different ways. **Leave some room here for a sketch (wastewater treatment)**
6.What is sludge and how do we deal with it?
The solid material that remains after treatment 7.What are pathogens? Disease-causing organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and parasitic worms. List some examples Cholera, hepatitis, and typhoid 8.How can biological magnification affect polluted aquatic ecosystems? Because there only needs to be one intake of water pollution, and the food chain will take over and continuously pass it through and through. **Leave some room here for sketches (biomagnifications & eutrophication)**
9.What is thermal pollution and why is it a
problem? Excessive amounts of heat are added to a body of water. This can be a problem because the rivers or lakes are getting heated. 10. What is the Clean Water Act? When was it passed? An act created to resore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nations waters. It was passed in 1972 11. Why will groundwater pollution be a longlasting problem? Because the groundwater is so dispersed and outspread it will be difficult to try to decontaminate it. 12. Where does most bottled water come from? The tap. It is just filtered and chemically modified.
Freshwater Pollution Guided Notes
Holt Environmental Science Section 5.2, pg. 131 1.What is water pollution? 2.What are the major causes of water pollution? 3.What is point pollution? Provide one example. 4.What is nonpoint pollution? Provide one example. 5.Why is nonpoint pollution a more serious problem? **Leave some room here for a sketch (wastewater treatment)** 6.What is sludge and how do we deal with it? 7.What are pathogens? List some examples. 8.How can biological magnification affect polluted aquatic ecosystems? **Leave some room here for sketches (biomagnifications & eutrophication)** 9.What is thermal pollution and why is it a problem? 10. What is the Clean Water Act? When was it passed?
11. Why will groundwater pollution be a longlasting problem?