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FreshwaterJeopardy
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Freshwater Systems and Resources
How We Use Water
Quantity of Freshwater
Freshwater Pollution
Wastewater Treatment
FINAL ROUND
Freshwater Systems and Resources
$100 Question
Summarizes how liquid, gaseous and solid water flows through the environment
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What is “Hydrologic cycle ”?
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$200 Question
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The loss of water in the form of water vapor from the aerial parts of the plant.
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What is “Transpiration” ?
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Freshwater Systems and Resources
$300 Question
Underground reservoirs of sponge-like regions of rock and soil that hold groundwater
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What are “aquifers”?
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region ringing the edge of a water body (rooted aquatic plants grow in this shallow part)
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What is the “Littoral zone ”?
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Freshwater Systems and Resources
$500 Question
Which lake is eutrophic?
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ANSWERA B
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What is “B”?
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Oligotrophic lakes
Eutrophic lake
How We Use Freshwater
$100 Question
The primary use for water by humans
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How We Use Freshwater
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What is “ agriculture“ ?
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How We Use Freshwater
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reasons to build dams
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What are the “to generate electricity, prevent flooding, and provide irrigation”?
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How We Use Freshwater
$300 Question
areas where ground gives way unexpectedly; caused by overuse of aquifer
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What are “sinkholes”?
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How We Use Freshwater
$400 Question
Overpumping ground water in coastal ares can cause _________ to move into groundwater, making the water undrinkable
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How We Use Freshwater
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What is “salt water”?
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A drawback associated with building dams
How We Use Freshwater
$500 Question
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What are
“displacement of people,
alteration of wildlife habitat,
decline in fisheries due to blocked migration and thermal pollution,
sediment settling behind the dam,
pollutants trapped behind the dam”?
How We Use Freshwater
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Quantity of Freshwater$100 Question
occurs when large amounts of groundwater have been excessively withdrawn from an aquifer; the clay layers within the aquifer compact and settle, resulting in lowering the ground surface in the area from which the groundwater is being pumped.
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Quantity of Freshwater
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What is “land subsidence”?
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the removal of salt from seawater or other water of marginal quality
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What is “desalination”?
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Efficient irrigation methods
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Quantity of Freshwater
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What are “Low-pressure spray irrigation (sprays water downward) and Drip irrigation systems (target individual plants) ”?
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Quantity of Freshwater
$400 Question
Ways in which residential demand for water can be reduced
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What are “watering lawns at night, using low-flow faucets, landscaping with native plants”?
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Quantity of Freshwater
$500 Question
In this diagram, excess surface water runoff is used to ________ the aquifer
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Quantity of Freshwater
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What is “recharge”?
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Freshwater Pollution
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Discrete locations of water pollution
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What are “point sources”?
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Freshwater Pollution
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pollution that arises from multiple inputs over larger areas (farms, city streets, neighborhoods)
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What are “nonpoint sources”?
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Freshwater Pollution
$300 Question
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Excessive nitrates in drinking water can adversely affect a baby’s health, sometimes causing _______________
Freshwater Pollution
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What is “blue baby syndrome”?
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Freshwater Pollution
$400 Question
can effectively remove many pollutants associated with municipal and industrial wastewater and stormwater; can serve as a wildlife site, to attract various animals and provide habitat
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What is “artificial wetland”?
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Freshwater Pollution
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Legislation making it illegal to discharge pollution without a permit; sets standards for industrial wastewater; funded sewage treatment plants
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What is the “Clean Water Act ”?
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Wastewater Treatment
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the most popular method of wastewater disposal in rural areas; underground tanks separate solids and oils from wastewater;the water drains into a drain field, where microbes decompose the pollutants;solid waste is periodically pumped out and landfilled
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What is “septic system”?
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created by decomposition can be burned to generate electricity
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What is “methane gas”?
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Wastewater Treatment
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physically removes contaminants in settling tanks (clarifiers)
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What is “primary treatment”?
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Wastewater Treatment
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solid material resulting from treatment; which is then landfilled, incinerated, or used as fertilizer on cropland
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Wastewater Treatment
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What is “sludge”?
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Wastewater Treatment
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a biological treatment process to remove dissolved organic matter from wastewater; sewage microorganisms are cultivated and added to the wastewater; the microorganisms absorb organic matter from sewage as their food supply.
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What is “secondary treatment”?
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FINAL ROUND Question
a synthetic chemical that when absorbed into the body either mimics or blocks hormones and disrupts the body's normal functions; enters the air or water as a byproduct of many chemical and manufacturing processes and when plastics and other materials are burned; can leach out of plastics; are persistent in the environment
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What is an “endocrine disruptor”?
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