Water Pollution Review
Quiz by Ben Vogler
Feel free to use or edit a copy
includes Teacher and Student dashboards
Measure skillsfrom any curriculum
Measure skills
from any curriculum
Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
With a free account, teachers can
- edit the questions
- save a copy for later
- start a class game
- automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
- assign as homework
- share a link with colleagues
- print as a bubble sheet
16 questions
Show answers
- Q1What are nutrients that get into the water to cause eutrophication?Phosphates and nitric acidNitrates and LeadNitrogen fixation and ammoniaNitrates and Phosphates30s
- Q2Which one of these measures the cloudiness of water?Fecal ColiformTurbidityTotal Dissolved SolidsBiological Oxygen Demand30s
- Q3Which one of these measures the amount of oxygen is needed for decompositionFecal ColiformD.O.B.O.D.pH30s
- Q4A Secchi Disk is used in which test?Total Dissolved SolidsB.O.D.D.O.Turbidity30s
- Q5Which one of these measures the amount of oxygen present in water?B.O.D.TurbidityD.O.pH30s
- Q6Solubility of gases tends to ______________ while the temperature _______________.increase; increaseincrease; decreasedecreases; decrease30s
- Q7Solubility and Temperature have an ______________ relationship in relation to gasesdirectinverse30s
- Q8Measures the amount of E. Coli in the waterTotal Suspended SolidsTurbidityFecal ColiformBiological Oxygen Demand30s
- Q9Which is NOT a characteristic of an oligotrophic lake?Low nutrient levelsLow dissolved oxygen levelsClearStable algae population30s
- Q10Oligotrophic lakes are better (healthier) than Eutrophic lakesTRUEFALSE30s
- Q11Which is an example of POINT source pollution?Excess nutrients found in the Mississippi river from wastewater treatment plants and runoff from agriculturesewage coming out of a pipe from a hog farmOils and grease found in a storm drain30s
- Q12Which is NOT part of the zones found on the oxygen SAG curve?RecoveryDie-offDecompositionSeptic30s
- Q13Plants that are living inside of a lake can die when an algae bloom occcursFalseTrue30s
- Q14Riparian buffers (vegetation) aids in preventing run-off and erosionTrueFalse30s
- Q15The process of decompositionIncreases TSSIncreases organic wasteDecreases D.O.Increases D.O.30s