Unit 5 Reading Study Guide
Focus your reading on the following concepts:
Chapter 9
- Wetlands
- Riparian zone
- Wetland functions
- "No net loss" policy
Chapter 10
- Surface water vs. groundwater
- Surface runoff
- Methods of controlling and preventing floods
- Watershed
- Floodplains
- Water conservation
- Reclamation of sewage water
- Desalination
- Water diversion
- Methods of irrigation
- Salinization
- Groundwater depletion
- Subsidence
- Sale of water rights
Chapter 11
- Point source vs. nonpoint source water pollution
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Sediment pollution: sources, effects, and control
- Eutrophication: causes, effects, and control
- Thermal pollution: causes, effects, control
- Disease producing organisms: sources and control
- Toxic organic compounds
- Biological magnification
- Oxygen-demanding organic wastes
- Primary and secondary sewage treatment
- Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act)
- Watershed management
Chapter 12
- Anadromous vs. resident fish
- Hypoxia
- Eutrophication
- Sedimentation
- Acid deposition
- Impact of exotic organisms
- Dams
- Impacts of resource extraction
- Channelization
- Habitat restoration
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