New Vocabulary

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Instructions
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.
Primary sewage treatment
4 steps

1
Tertiary Sewage Treatment
2 steps

2
Secondary sewage
treatment
3 steps

3
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 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.

5
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.

6
Step: Sludge Removal
Sludge (solids) is scraped off the bottom
of the tank

7
Step: Chlorine and a pH adjuster mixed
into the water

8
Step: Settling Tank 1

9
Step: Grit Chamber - removes sand and
gravel

10
Step: Aeration
Tank
The aeration
tank stirs and
bubbles the
water
11
Step: Screening
Trash and other large material is screened
out from the influent.

12
Step: Treated water is released into a
river

13
Step:
Another
Settling
tank

14
Step: Sludge is scraped off of the tank.
Some is sent away to a landfill, and some
is returned to the aeration tank.

15
Physical
Physical
Physical
Physical
Physical
Physical
Physical
Biological
Chemical