Water Pollution Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. man-made toxic products like pesticides
  2. 7. fatal dramatic change in water temperature
  3. 9. continent with the highest mercury emissions
  4. 12. metal that contaminates water through pipes
  5. 14. abundance of nutrients in a body of water
  6. 15. type of pollution that causes change in water temperature
  7. 17. man-made pond full of animal feces
  8. 19. method of cleaning up oil by temporary containing the spill
  9. 20. acids in precipitation that attach to soil, water, plants
  10. 22. water pollution law that focuses on what's at surface waters
  11. 24. where wastewater from rural homes go
Down
  1. 1. discarded materials that aren't toxic to organisms
  2. 2. name of tanker that caused huge oil spill from running into the Alaskan coast
  3. 3. industrial compound found in plastics known to cause cancer
  4. 4. very important organism that tells scientists if there are pathogens around
  5. 6. used to control waste in developed countries and more populated areas
  6. 8. an area with very little life and oxygen
  7. 10. high concentrations of this metal in ground and drinking water comes from rocks and Earth's crust
  8. 11. metal that contaminates water through human activities, especially burning of coal
  9. 13. naturally made toxic products like poisonous mushrooms
  10. 16. group of harmful chemicals like lead, arsenic, mercury
  11. 18. chemicals used to break up and disperse oil
  12. 21. the local factory that dumps their trash and waste into the nearby lake
  13. 23. used to filter septage
  14. 24. made up of a septic tank and leach field