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Water Pollution Quiz 2 (25 MCQs)

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1. A construction company has cut down trees and begun excavating soil. What type of pollution would this cause?
2. The water and human wastes that are washed down sinks, showers, and toilets are called:
3. _____ is easily recharged by rainfall but extremely hard to clean.
4. What is an effect of soil pollution?
5. Results in an increase of water temperature
6. Acid rain is an example of what type of pollution?
7. Why is pollution so bad?
8. What is it called when a persistent pollutant (like mercury or PCBs) builds up in the tissues of an organism.
9. Which of the following is the most common oxygen demanding waste?
10. What helps protect against leachate getting into groundwater in sanitary landfills?
11. Which type of pollution can lead to public swimming areas being closed by the health department?
12. _____ pollution is when waste, chemicals, or other particles cause a body of water (i.e. rivers, oceans, lakes) to become harmful to the fish and animals that need the water to survive
13. _____ is monitored because it's an indicator species for wastewater (sewage) pollution.
14. Dead zones are a result of _____
15. What is the most common source of pollution in the WORLD?
16. Which is a category of water pollution?
17. The contamination of air due to the presence or introduction of a dangerous substance describes:
18. What is the worst thing about water pollution?
19. A process by which increasing amounts of toxins are stored in the bodies of organisms as toxins move up the food chain
20. What is one way to stop water pollution.
21. Which of the following can pollute water?
22. _____ decreases water quality but is made by air pollution mixing with water.
23. How does plastic end up reaching and entering the ocean from land?
24. Pollution from a nuclear reactor explosion is
25. _____ is stored in the spaces between soil and rock beneath the Earth's surface.
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