Environmental Science

Watershed

• Mississippi River

• pathogen

• recharge zone

• aquifer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Recharge zone

• Mississippi River

• area above an aquifer

• bottled water

• underground formation that holds water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Potable

• Mississippi River

• Area above an aquifer

• bottled water

• underground formation that holds water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Non point-source pollution

• Mississippi River

• bottled water

• fertilizer runoff

• multiple sources

Artificial Eutrophication

• multiple sources

• fertilizer runoff

• bacteria

• surface water that percolates through soil

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

1972 Clean Water Act

• law designed to improve water quality

• groundwater

• surface water that percolates through soil

• removing salt from water to make fresh water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Groundwater

• bottled water

• area above an aquifer

• surface water that percolates through soil

• multiple sources

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Aquifer

• underground rock formation that holds water

• law designed to improve water quality

• process by which increasing amounts of toxins in the bodies of organisms as toxins move up the food chain

• removing salt from salt water to make fresh water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Desalination

• underground rock formation that holds water

• law designed to improve water quality

• process by which increasing amounts of toxins are stored in the bodies as toxins move up the food chain

• removing salt from salt water to make fresh water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Biomagnification

• underground rock formation that holds water

• law designed to improve water quality

• non point source pollution

• process by which increasing amounts of toxins in the bodies of organisms as toxins move up the food chain