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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is sustainability? | Resources that can be harvested year after year without harming the environment |
| What are the three laws of sustainability? | One: use renewable energy as much as possible two: protect biodiversity, three: recycle nutrients back into the soil as much as possible |
| What percent of earth is covered by water? | 72% |
| What percent of water on earth is fresh | 3% |
| What percent of water is able to be used by humans on earth? | One percent |
| What are the three steps of the water cycle? | Precipitation, evaporation/transpiration, condensation |
| All the land around the body of water that drains into that body of water is known as | Watershed |
| What is the process of water soaking into the ground? | Infiltration |
| What happens to precipitation when it hits the ground? | It runs off into other bodies of water, infiltrates into the ground, evaporates into the sky/clouds |
| Define recharge | Water infiltrating, and moving downward into the ground to refill an aquifer |
| What percent of your body is made of water? | 60% |
| A layer of rock that does not allow precipitation to pass through is said to be | Impervious |
| The top part of the groundwater that can rise or fall, depending on the precipitation amount is the | Water table |
| Why do men from Missouri? Have such unhealthy sperm? | Farm chemicals and tapwater |
| What toxic chemical was found to be in fish being caught by the father and his daughter | Toxic mercury was found in fish, methyl mercury |
| What is nonpoint source pollution? | Pollution that comes from many widespread area areas not just one specific location |
| What is point source pollution? | Point source pollution is pollution that comes from one specific identifiable location |
| Five example examples of non-point source pollution | Fertilizer, pesticides oil and gas, pet waste litter/trash |
| Five examples of point source pollution | Sewage ,chemicals, heated water, oil, mining waste |
| What two nutrients contribute to water pollution | Nitrogen and phosphorus |
| How can sediment harm water quality? | By making the water, cloudy and reducing the amount of sunlight that can reach the plants underwater |
| What can you do around your home to reduce pollution entering a ground | Pick up and recycle your trash, don’t pour chemicals or oils onto the ground, pick up pet waste, so it doesn’t wash into the water |
| How can access nutrients affect the body of water? | Can cause algae to grow too much lowering oxygen level and harming the fish |
| What is the water footprint? | The amount of water that we use directly and indirectly every day to keep us alive |
| What is virtual water? | Water that is not directly consumed, but is used to produce food and other products |
| What are ground water and surface water withdrawals used for in the US | electricity, agriculture, and products |
| What is a water hotspot? | A place where water is scarce causing conflict between people and agriculture |
| What is groundwater recharge? | The process of water soaking into the ground to go underground |
| How many gallons of water are used to produce a 2 L bottle of Coca-Cola | 132 gallons of water |
| How many states are part of the Colorado river drainage basin | Seven states |
| How many dams are used to store water and control the Colorado river | 14 major dams and reservoirs |
| What reservoir store 80% of the water? | Lake med behind the Hoover Dam and Lake Powell behind the Glen Canyon, dam |
| How many people in the US receive water and electricity from the Colorado river drainage basin | 30 million people |
| What percent of our crops and livestock are produced from Colorado river water | 15% |
| What causes earth to have seasons? | The tilt of the Earth‘s axis and the position in the orbit |
| What is the tilt of the Earth’s axis? | 23 1/2° |
| What is the name of a day in which day and night are equal? | Equinox |
| How many times do we have an equinox a year? | Twice |
| The Earth revolves around the sun at | 65,000 mph |
| The speed of the Earth rotation at the equator is | 1000 |
| What percent of water on earth is saltwater? | 97% |
| What percent of water can we not use because it’s locked in glaciers | 2% |
| How many gallons of water does it take to make a cheeseburger | 698.5 gallons of water |
| Five ways to conserve water at home | Don’t leave water running, fix leaks around the house, install low flow showerhead, install low flow, toilet, water your plants in the morning |
| What is protist | The base of aquatic food chain |
| What are the two types of protist | Plant like an animal like |
| What is a plant like protist | Getting food from the sun being called producers, algae |
| What is an animal like protist | Getting their food |
| What is pH? | A measure of how acidic or basic water or soil is |
| At what number does it become acidic? | Above seven |
| What is basic or alkaline? | Below seven |
| What a stream side buffer | Trees, shrubs, and grasses growing alongside a waterway lake or a pond |
| What causes changing water pH | Man-made acid, rain, acid, mind, drainage, water, flow, flowing over or through rocks with sulfur in them |
| What is a wetland? | Areas that have a unique soil, have water all or part of the year, and have life adapted to these wet conditions |
| What is bogs? | Areas of moist, spongy, soil, consisting of decomposing plant material, has a lot of shrubs, bushes and water lilies, has small open areas of water |
| What is a swamp? | Has trees as the dominant plant, much open water |
| What is a marshes | Found at the mouth of rivers or near the coast, tall grass is dominate such as cattails, may have narrow channels of open water |
| Benefits of wetlands | Hold water, allow infiltration, recharge, aquifers, filter, water, breakdown, pollutants, absorb, runoff, reduce flooding, reduced erosion, act as food factories |
| What are threats to wetlands? | Toxic runoff from industry, rising sea levels, leachate, chemical, runoff, being drained, and filled in for agriculture |
| What is the stream side buffer? | Areas of vegetation along sides of rivers, or along the shores of bodies of water |
| Benefits of bogs | Roots absorb pollutants before they reach the water, provide shade which lowers water temperatures, helps reduce flooding by absorbing runoff |
| What is Pennsylvania’s relief program? | Conserve existing streamside, buffers, repair, damaged, or missing buffers, educate the public about the importance of streamside buffers |
| What type of sewage treatment puts rain and sewage water together | A combined sewer system |
| What is the definition of the water cycle? | A continuous loop where water evaporates into the atmosphere and returns to earth as precipitation |
| What powers the water cycle? | The sun |
| What are the two methods Philadelphia uses to capture? | Grain stormwater, infrastructure, gray infrastructure |
| What is an example of green stormwater infrastructure? | Rain gardens, green roofs, permeable pavement |
| What is an example of grey infrastructure | Man-made systems designed to collect and store volumes of water underground before it can escape into local rivers |
| Four ways Philadelphia uses green infrastructure | Tree trenches, rain, gardens, permeable, pavement, green roofs |
| What are four factors that determine oxygen level in water? | Water, temperature, salt, content, atmosphere pressure and living things/nature |
| What are four factors that affects temperature in water | Suddenly, air temperature water depth, and shading |
| What do you call a massive polluted water that moves under ground? | Contaminant plume |
| What makes a landfill able to call itself a landfill | Liner system, leachate collection, daily soil, cover, ground water monitoring |
| On a pH scale, what are the acid/basis found | Acids neutral and alkaline |
| What is an ion? | An atom or molecule that has a net electrical charge |
| Hawley and lake Wallenpaupack. Which is part of the othered water shed | Wallenpauapck is part of the Hawley watershed |
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