Water quality By:Bailey Willis
Across
- 1. Type of water that is caused by things like clay, silt, organic and inorganic matter and microscopic organisms
- 4. An act to set maximum permissible amounts of water pollutants that can be discharged into waterways
- 6. A pH of 7
- 9. Low levels of this doesn't support living organisms
- 11. The acidity of water
- 13. pH less than 7 is
- 14. Based nutrients commonly found in fertilizers and pesticides.
- 16. Pollutants discharged from a single identifiable location
- 17. Measure of the average kinetic energy
- 18. Contamination of Earth from discharge of harmful substances.
- 19. A pH greater than 7
Down
- 2. Organisms found living in water that have specific living conditions and are very sensitive to pollution.
- 3. A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet or small river
- 5. Water that has been used and contaminated
- 6. Pollution that does not have a specific point of release, open, loop recycling, when materials are reused to form new products
- 7. The area of land where all of the water that drains off of it goes into the same place
- 8. A low-lying area of land that is saturated with moisture
- 10. Compound that the nitrogen based polyatomic ion NO3
- 12. Refers to water clarity
- 15. The air, water, minerals and animals surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time