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- What is water containing a very low salt concentration-usually less than 1%?
Answer: Freshwater
- What is the depletion of oxygen concentration in water caused by fertilizers and phosphates runoff causing an explosion in alga blooms that die absorbing the oxygen?
Answer: Eutrophication
- What is another name for dirt and soil that runoff into water sources such as lakes, rivers, streams, and ponds?
Answer: Sediment
- What is pollution that enters a water source at a specific site usually a pipe or drain?
Answer: Point Source
- What is pollution entering a water source that does not have an identifiable source or has many different sources?
Answer: Non-Point Source
- What are areas that collect runoff water that consist of lakes, rivers, ponds, streams?
Answer: Watershed
- What is a shaft or hole that is dug in the ground to access groundwater?
Answer: Well
- What is caused when groundwater is withdrawn and not replaced?
Answer: Sinkhole
- What is the main freshwater source of drinking water for humans?
Answer: Rivers
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