| A | B |
|---|
| Surface Water | fresh water above ground in lakes |
| watershed | entire area of a land that is drained by a river |
| groundwater | water that seeps down and is stored in underground rock formations |
| aquifers | large amounts of water stored in underground rock formations |
| recharge zone | the area of land from which the ground water orginates |
| desalinization | removing the salt from salt water |
| dam | a large structure used to slow the flow of a river to produce equal distribution |
| towing water | taking water from place to place to solve water shortage problems |
| water cycle | It gets cloudy, rains evaporates into the sky, condenses, and then rains again |
| distillation | process of heating a liquid and cooling and condensing the resulting vapor to seperate substances and produce a more refined liquid |
| reverse osmosis | Desalinization process in which pressure is used to push water through a simipermeable membrane that will not permit salt to pass |
| MARPOL | International Conbention for the Prevention of pollution from ships |
| territorial sea | The laws of a coastal nation extend 22km from its coastline defined by the law of the sea treaty. |
| water pollution | the introduction of chemical, physical, or biological material into water that degrates the quality of the water and affects the organisms that drink it and live in it |
| point pollution | is pollution that is discharged from a single source |
| non-point pollution | is pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single specific site |
| bioaccumulation | in the food chain, toxin passed on to the next eater increases in potency. |
| thermal pollutions | excessive amounts of heat are added to a body of water |
| eutrophic | An abundance of nutrients |
| fecal coliform test | tests for these bacteria; Echerchia Coli |
| algal blooms | Algae that can form large mats |
| artificial eutrophication | When Eutrophication can be accelerated when inorganic plant nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen get into the water from sewage and fertilizer runoff |
| clean water act | "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the nations water" |
| Exxon Valdez | Spilled oil on prince William Sound |
| Exclusive economic zone | Area that extends 370km from land. |
