| A | B |
|---|
| Watershed | an area of land that is drained to a river or other body of water(by a ridge) |
| Runoff | water that flows over land |
| Sound | a long passage of water that connects 2 larger bodies of water |
| Estuary | a partly enclosed body of water where fresh water from land drainage and seawater meet and mix |
| Permeability | capable of being passed through |
| Erosion | the wearing away of soil by water, wind, and other forces |
| Sediments | soil particles eroded from construction sites, stream banks, and cropland. |
| Nutrients | primarily mitrogen and phosphorus necessary for plant growth |
| non-point source pollution | the source of a contaminate is unidentifiable |
| point source pollution | pollutants that are discharged from and can be traced back to an identifiable point or source |
| PH | tests is your water is acidic or basic |
| copper | found naturally, tastes bitter, stains blue, controls algae, only acidic water dissolves copper from the inside surface of pipes. |
| chlorine | added to kill bacteria and germs and to control algae too much smella and tastes bad |
| iron | found naturally; stain orange |
| hardness | hard water; has a lot of calcium and magnesium minerals dissolved in it; responsible for the spots on your drinking glasses the white crustyb scale on the showerhead and even the ring in your bathtub. |
