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New Vocabulary Instructions

(This is the only card you should write on!!!)
1. Find the cards labeled 1-6. Match each process with its description,
creating 3 pairs.
2. Lay the three processes in order across the table. Add unfamiliar words
to the vocabulary list as they come up.
3. Each of the remaining cards is a STEP that is part of the Primary,
Secondary, or Tertiary stages. See you if you can put all of the steps in
order and in the right stage. Continue adding to your vocab list.
4. Lastly, label each step as a Physical, Biological, or Chemical method of
water treatment.

1 2

Primary sewage treatment Tertiary Sewage Treatment

4 steps 2 steps

1
2

3 4

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Secondary sewage
treatment
3 steps
3
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This step involves the use of filtration, disinfection, and
nutrient removal. The goal is to produce an effluent that is
of high enough quality to be safely discharged into the
environment or reused for irrigation.
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involves the physical separation of solid and liquid waste
using screens and sedimentation tanks. The goal is to
remove large objects and debris, and to settle out heavy
particles in the wastewater.
4
This step is typically done using microorganisms, such as
bacteria, that consume the organic matter and convert it
into biomass.
The microbes need oxygen to do their job, so the process
is sped up when additional oxygen is supplied.
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Step: Sludge Removal Step: Chlorine and a pH adjuster mixed

Sludge (solids) is scraped off the bottom into the water
of the tank

7 8

9 10

Step: Settling Tank 1 Step: Grit Chamber - removes sand and

gravel

9 10

11 12

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Step: Aeration Step: Screening

Tank Trash and other large material is
The aeration screened out from the influent.
tank stirs and
bubbles the
water
11 12

13 14

Step: Treated water is released into a

Step:
river
Another
Settling
tank

13 14

15 16

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Step: Sludge is scraped off of the tank.

Some is sent away to a landfill, and some
is returned to the aeration tank.

Physical
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Physical Physical
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Physical Physical
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Physical Physical
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Biological Chemical
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