water pollution hard Flashcards
1
Q
- Sewage
- Disease-causing agents
- Sediment pollution
- Inorganic plant and algal nutrients
- Organic compounds
- Inorganic chemicals
- Radioactive substances
- Thermal pollution
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types of water pollution
2
Q
point source
non point source
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sources of water pollution
3
Q
•Any physical or chemical change in water that adversely affects the health of humans and other organisms
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water pollution
4
Q
•Enrichment
- •Fertilization of a body of water by high levels of plant and algal nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus)
•Increase in Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD)
- •Amount of oxygen needed by microorganisms to decompose biological wastes
- •As BOD increases Dissolve Oxygen (DO) decreases
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sewages environmental problems
5
Q
•Includes human wastes, soaps, and detergents
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the release of waste water from drains and sewers
6
Q
oligotrophic
Eutrophic
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sewage eutrophication