Air Pollution Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. a large area of land that collects precipitation and eventually concentrates it into a specific river or aquifer
- 3. leakage of radioactive wastes into natural waterways
- 5. an underground, porous area of soil that has been saturated with water
- 6. phosphorous and nitrogen fertilizers that can lead to eutrophication
- 10. trash thrown into any body of water or waterway from boats or from offshore
- 12. the amount of oxygen in a body of water in parts per million
- 13. the amount of oxygen needed to degrade or decompose a specific amount of organic waste that has entered into a body of water such as a stream or lake
- 14. this occurs when the ground level drops due to excessive removal of water from an underground aquifer
Down
- 1. the top of the zone of saturation in an underground aquifer
- 2. the majority of global water is used for _______________
- 4. the #1 water pollution problem for humans in the world is the lack of disease-free ___________________
- 7. this occurs when excessive amounts of water are removed from a fresh water aquifer and adjacent saline water moves in to replace the fresh water
- 8. heated water from power plant cooling or other industrial processes
- 9. suspended soil particles caused by excessive erosion
- 11. human waste that contains nutrients and pathogens