LT 2.2 Water Pollution Quiz

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Point Source

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(b) Non-point Source

• mines
• factories

• landfills
• wastewater treatment plants

• agricultural runoff
• construction sites
• erosion

• urban runoff
• power plant

• stormwater runoff

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Match the following

• Human/Animal waste in water

• Chemical Pollution

• Soil erosion leading to sediment runoff

• Thermal Pollution

• Heat from industrial processes

• Biological Pollution

• Excessive fertilizers in water bodies

• Sediment Pollution

• Petroleum leaking from a tank

• Nutrient Pollution

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The process of POPs becoming more concentrated as you move higher up the food chain.

• Bioaccumulation

• Biomagnification

• Bioassays

POP stands for​ (a)   (b)   ​ (c)  

• Persistent
• Organic
• Pollutants

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

True or False: The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill had no long lasting effects on the Gulf of Mexico.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

List 3 of the ways oil spills in the ocean can be cleaned up.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

Which of the following is an example of how organism can be affected by oil spills?

• Suffocation

• Toxicity: absorb contaminante through their skin

• die from overheating and exhaustion

• loss of habitat

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4