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Agricultural pollution
Pollution from rural areas where few people live.
Algae
A general term for small, chlorophyll-containing plants such as seaweed or pond scum.
Ammonia
A colorless, pungent gas composed of nitrogen and hydrogen from animal waste.
Aquaculture
The cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food; fish farming.
Aquatic
Living or growing in water.
Aquifer
An underground water system made of porous rock and sand.
Bottom trawling
Fishing method that involves towing trawl nets along the sea floor.
By-catch
Unwanted marine creatures caught in the nets while fishing for another species.
Condensation
When water vapor forms droplets of water in the atmosphere, making clouds; the change in water from gas to liquid form.
Confining layer
A place in the aquifer where impermeable rock covers permeable rock.
Evaporation
The change in water from liquid to gas.
Eutrophication
When large amounts of nutrients enter the water and cause an increase in the amount of oxygen.
Exotic Plant
A plant that is transported from its place of origin and introduced into a new environment.
Groundwater
Water that percolates through the surface and is retained in underlying rock and soil.
Groundwater contamination
When any harmful substance enters the water underground and makes it unsuitable for use.
Groundwater model
A representation of the underground water system.
Groundwater system
Holds the rock layers that make up an aquifer and the water that is stored and transported through the openings in the rocks.
Herbicides
Chemicals used to kill weeds.
Hydrologic Cycle
The passage of water between reservoirs (oceans and atmosphere) by groundwater percolation, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Impermeable
Something that does not allow liquid to run through it.
Marine protected area (MPA)
An area of the marine environment that has been reserved to provide lasting protection for part or all of the natural and cultural resources.
Native Plant
A plant that lives and thrives in its place of origin.
Nitrate
A water-soluble molecule made up of nitrogen and oxygen, commonly found in agricultural fertilizers.
Nitrogen
A colorless, odorless gas that is a non-metallic element which makes up almost four fifths of the air.
Non-point source
When the point of pollution is difficult to identify.
Organic Pollution
Pollution that occurs when living things decompose.
Percolation
When precipitation is absorbed into the ground and moves down through the soil.
Permeable
Ability of something to allow liquids to run through it.
Pesticides
Chemical substances applied to plants to keep insects away.
Phosphates
Phosphorous that can come from natural sources such as phosphate-containing rocks and human sources such as fertilizers, pesticides, detergents, and industrial wastes.
Photosynthesis
The process by which plants convert energy from the sun into food.
Phytoplankton
Single celled algae.
Point source
When the source of the pollutant is easily identified.
Porous Rock
A rock with many spaces between grains.
Precipitation
Water that is released from the atmosphere as rain, snow, hail, etc.
Sediment Pollution
Pollution that occurs when loose soil is carried into bodies of water by rain.
Spring
Water returning to the surface after being absorbed by the ground.
Stormwater runoff
Rainwater that does not soak into the ground and carries pollution into bodies of water.
Surface Runoff
Precipitation that drains across the land into lakes, streams, or rivers.
Surface Water
Water that lays on the earth’s surface, including rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, ponds, and wetlands.
Transpiration
The process by which water is released from plants' leaves.
Watershed
An area of land over which water flows to reach a common body of water such as a lake or pond.
Well
A hole that is drilled into the aquifer.
Zooplankton
Very small aquatic animals.
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