Water Quality Vocab
Jillian Sperico
Runoff
- The draining away of water going off an area of land.
Transpiration
The process where plants absorb water from their roots and give off water vapor through their leaves.
Respiration
A process which living organisms involving producing energy, taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide .
Percolation
The process of liquid slowly passing through a filter.
Infiltration
When water on the ground goes into the soil.
Approximate
Something to be similar or close to something in nature, quantity or quality.
River Basin
The land that water crosses or goes under on its way to the river.
Watershed
The area of land that all the water that falls into it, drains off into a common outlet.
Tributary
A river or stream leading or flowing into a larger river or lake .
Groundwater
Water held underground , in the pores or in the creases of rocks.
Aquifer
A body of permeable rock that can transmit or contain groundwater.
Artesian Well
If water reaches the ground surface by natural pressure of the aquifer, the well is called a flowing Artesian Well.
Permeable
A material allowing liquid or gases to pass through it.
Impermeable
Not allowing liquid to pass through a material
Assume
Supposed to be, without proof
Point Source Pollution
A single identifiable source of air, water pollution, thermal, noise or light pollution.
Non-point source pollution
is caused by rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground
Bio-indicator
species that can be used to monitor the health of an environment or ecosystem
Contaminate
make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance
Macro-invertebrate
large Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebrate.
Algal bloom
a rapid increase in the population of algae in water.
Identify
establish or indicate what something is.
Pollutant
Something that can pollute a substance, usually water or the atmosphere.
Water Hardness
amount of dissolved calcium and magnesium in the water
Stewardship
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