1. Chemicals Around us Water Near You Percents and Stuff 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt
Polluted
or not
How & where
it Flows
Water
Near You
Percents
and Stuff
5 pt
5 pt
5 pt
5 pt
5 pt
10 pt
10 pt
10 pt
10 pt
10 pt
15 pt
15 pt
15 pt
15 pt
15 pt
20 pt
20 pt
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25 pt
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25 pt

2. Contains calcium and magnesium to name a few

3. What is
Hard Water?

4. Need this to support life in water. Acceptable amounts are between 5-6
8 is optimal

5. What is a Dissolved Oxygen?

6. Comes from animal waste acts as a fertilizer
Levels below 4ppm indicate unpolluted water
Above 40ppm – water is unsafe to drink

7. What are
Nitrates?

8. comes from detergents and animal waste
Acts as a fertilizer
comes from detergents and animal waste
a fertil

9. What are Phosphates?

10. Used to clean water containing Coliform and other bacteria

11. What is Chlorine?

12. Household waste water

13. What is Sewage?

14. a measure to see if waters acidic or basic
Scale is 1 to 14
Optimal for fish or organisms
to life is 6.5 to 8.2

15. What is
pH?

16. A perfect pH of 7

17. What is a neutral solution or Pure Water?

18. dead and decaying leaves, plants and animals that add nitrogen, phosphates and other nutrients to water

19. What is a
Organic Matter?

20. Specific source of Pollution that can be identified

21. What is a
Point Source?

22. Non-specific source of pollution Can not be traced to a source

23. What is a
Non-Point Source?

24. Flows over a ground surface

25. What is
Runoff?

26. A Land Ridge that separates two Watersheds

27. What is a divide?

28. Small streams and creeks that feed into a larger river

29. What are Tributaries?

30. Made up of rivers and it’s tributaries

31. What are
River Systems?

32. The land area that supplies water that flows into streams then rivers and lakes

33. What is
A watershed?

34. is part of these watershed
Westlake
Middle School
is part of these watershed

35. What is the Wildcat Creek, Davis Brook, Bronx River and
the Long Island Sound
Watershed

36. Seasonal changes that refresh the nutrients in a lake.

37. What is Turnover or Lake Turnover?

38. The addition of these nutrients from dead leaves and animal waste will increase algae growth in a lake

39. Phosphates and Nitrates?
What are
Phosphates and Nitrates?

40. The process through which the overgrowth of green algae eventually fills in a lake

41. What is Eutrophication?

42. PPB

43. What is Parts per billion?

44. Black locust and black cherry.

45. What are shade intolerant trees?

46. These are two types of water tests.
Tell the percentages

47. What are chemical water testing (60%)
and
biotic testing (90%)?

48. Grass
Tall weeds
Brush
trees

49. What is Ecological Succession?

50. This tree type indicates that a forest is over 120 years.
Daily double: Name two trees that may be present

51. What are Shade tolerant trees?
Maples, beech 51