Water Pollution Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. The largest trash patch found in the Pacific Gyre.
  2. 5. This is the water treatment that involves boiling water
  3. 8. What happens when a body of water changes temperature too quickly, killing many of its inhabitants.
  4. 10. This element is a key part of acid rain.
  5. 13. The type of pollution that disrupts the natural temperature of a body of water.
  6. 14. The name of the offshore oil rig that experienced the largest oil spill in the history of marine oil drilling.
  7. 17. This plant is the most common way for dealing with waste in urban areas.
  8. 18. Part of septic treatment that releases the waste water back into the soil.
  9. 19. This type of pollution harms animals that use echolocation like whales and dolphins.
  10. 21. This metal causes serious complications in the nervous systems of animals
  11. 22. The chemical that Rachel Carson warned against in her novel “Silent Spring”
  12. 23. This is a way livestock waste is secured by a manmade pond lined with rubber.
  13. 24. This type of inorganic runoff causes water to become murky and prevents photosynthesis.
  14. 25. This type of mitigation involves surrounding spilled oil in water with plastic sheets.
Down
  1. 1. A part of the ocean where all the oxygen was depleted, allowing no life.
  2. 2. The part of sewage treatment that uses an aerated field to envourage bacterial decomposition of waste.
  3. 4. The process that uses a permeable filter to unwanted molecules apart from water
  4. 6. The specific bacteria that is commonly used as an indicator of high coliform.
  5. 7. The name of the ship that expeirenced the largest oil supertanker spillage ever in the US.
  6. 9. During coal production, this heavy metal is polluted.
  7. 11. This piece of legislation sets regulations about the quality of surface water in the U.S.
  8. 12. if people are not connected to a city sewer system, they probably have this to treat their wastewater
  9. 15. This piece of legislation sets limits on the amount of contaminants found within drinking water in the U.S.
  10. 16. Like bisphenols (BPA), this is a type of substance that causes cancer.
  11. 20. This is the water treatment of salt water.