1. Read “Muddy Waters” article

2. Muddy Waters ???’s
What are two measures that the farmer has taken to prevent pollution spreading to the surface water?
Please fill in the last two boxes to illustrate the effects of excessive nutrients
3. What are the two types of pollution that are created from farming?
4. What are two negative impacts that too much sediment can have on surface water?
Too many nutrients in the surface water

3. Eutrophication animation

4. Eutrophication
excessive nutrients in a body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life & death of animal life from lack of oxygen

5. Eutrophication

6. extra terminology:
healthy stream = has lots of living things, especially macro(large) invertebrates (animals without backbones)
buffer zone = plants/vegetation around the banks of rivers to absorb & slow runoff water
river delta = triangle shaped, where a river slows before it enters a large body of water, high deposition
estuary = ecosystem where fresh water mixes with salt water
turbidity = measure of how clear water is; high turbidity is a sign of an unhealthy stream

10. Indicators of Water System Health
Read the article

11. Turbidity

12. Stream Analysis Matching
Low Dissolved Oxygen
High Turbidity
Low pH
High Temperature
High Nitrate Levels
Trying to grow plants in the dark
Trying to breathe in space
Trying to run a marathon in the Sahara Desert in a snowmobile suit
Trying to watch TV with your skin melting
Going to an all you can eat buffet and getting a horrible stomach ache