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Vocabulary for Chapter 5

Learn and review vocab for Chapter 5.

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This watershed is the largest in the world.What is the Amazon Watershed?
Waste from farms in the Midwest empties into this river.What is the Mississippi River?
This law is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the nation's waters.What is the Clean Water Act?
This happens when excessive amounts of heat are added to a body of water.What is therma pollution?
These are disease-causing organisms like bacteria, viruses and parasites.What are pathogens?
Pollution thta comes from a single source, such as a factory, a treatment plant, and an oil tanker.What is point pollution?
This process removes salt from salt water.What is desalinization?
Rock formations that store underground water are these.What are aquifers?
This is an area that is drained by a river.What is a watershed?
97% of all the water of the earth is in these.What are the oceans?
This water hasn't sunk into the ground.What's surface water?
This is the largest aquifer in North America.What is the Ogallala?
This country has commissioned experiments on towing Antarctic icebergs to it to solve clean water shortages.What is Saudi Arabia?
What is a structure that is built across a river or stream that prevents it from travelling downstream.What is a dam?
What is the most controversial river in North America.What is the Colorado River?
This type of pollution introduces chemical, physical or biological material into a water source, causing it to become degraded and unusable.What is water pollution?
This pollution can come from anywhere.What is nonpoint pollution?
This river has high levels of dioxin in it and is also a controversial river in the eastern states.What is the Pigeon River?
This type of water is most likely to plague future generations.What is groundwater pollution?
Owns the oceans.Who is no one?

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