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Potable water
Water that is safe to drink
Watershed
A watershed is like a big bowl, water falls into it. The watershed drains into a big river, lake, or ocean.
Water quality. What does it contain?
Metals, organic material, living organism, bacteria
Reservoir
An artificial way of storing water
Salinity
The total amount of salts found in water
Testing water quality (10)
turbidity, toxins, suspended solids, dissolved solids, pH, dissolved oxygen, odor, taste, mineral content, bacteria
Hard water
Water containing dissolved minerals that can cause plumbing issues
Distillation
Process of removing water from a solution by boiling and condensing the steam
Reverse Osmosis (requires energy)
Process of forcing water through a selectively permeable membrane. Salt water is forced through a selectively permeable membrane and out comes purified water
Erosion
Wearing away of the shoreline
chemical weathering
Erosion or the wearing away of rock due to chemicals in the water (acid rain/snow)
Deposition
Building up of material on the shoreline
Waves
Surface movements transferring energy by the water particles moving in a circular motion
Tides
Regular rising and falling of large bodies of water
Kettle lake
a round lake formed by chunks of ice left behind and melting
Moraines
deposits of rocks and gravel at the edges and ends of glaciers
Drumlins
a small tear-drop-shaped hills formed over moraines
Eskers
snake-like structures formed by the deposition of the rocks and gravel as the glacier melts and the water drains away in a tunnel
Adaptation
Physical or behavioral characteristic change an organism develops, increasing an organism's survival rate
Species
Individuals resembling each other and reproducing viable offspring
Population
Members of a species living in a particular area
Community
Different populations living in a common area
Algal blooms
Overgrowth of algae due to excess nutrients, affecting water quality
Diversity
Variety of life forms in an environment
Alkali lakes
Form from deposits of carbonates and bicarbonates, creating high alkaline water that limits organism survival.
Adaptation
Physical or behavioral changes that organisms develop to enhance survival rates.
Spring thaw
Period of snow and ice melting, potentially contaminated by animal waste, oil, and road salt.
Water quality impacts
Agricultural run-off, urban run-off, habitat destruction, and sewage affect water quality.
Monitoring
means to observe, check, or keep track of
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