19. What is a floodplain? 20. What is a wetland? 21. How do wetlands help to regulate water flow? 22. Where do you get your drinking water? 23. How do contaminated soils affect your drinking water? 24. What is biodiversity? 25. What does the term permeable mean? 26. What does the term impermeable mean? 27. What is a river, according to the section entitled Ecosystem Connection”? “The 28. What is an ecological footprint? 29. A large variety and large number of aquatic organisms is an indication of this state of water quality. 30. Describe the term vegetative buffer. 31. What is sediment? 32. How does sediment affect the water quality? 33. Why are more humans vulnerable to flooding? 34. How has urban development reduced the land’s ability to absorb runoff? 35. Discuss the Clean Water Act of 1972. 36. What is a point source pollutant? A non-point source pollutant? 37. What does excess nutrients cause to grow in water resulting in the death of masses of fish? 38. What is stormwater? 39. How can the flow of stormwater be controlled? 40. When a scientist surveys the macroinvertebrates in a body of water, what is he/she studying? 41. Name 4 ways that citizens are making a difference in their communities.
19. What is a floodplain? 20. What is a wetland? 21. How do wetlands help to regulate water flow? 22. Where do you get your drinking water? 23. How do contaminated soils affect your drinking water? 24. What is biodiversity? 25. What does the term permeable mean? 26. What does the term impermeable mean? 27. What is a river, according to the section entitled “The Ecosystem Connection”? 28. What is an ecological footprint? 29. A large variety and large number of aquatic organisms is an indication of this state of water quality. 30. Describe the term vegetative buffer. 31. What is sediment? 32. How does sediment affect the water quality? 33. Why are more humans vulnerable to flooding? 34. How has urban development reduced the land’s ability to absorb runoff? 35. Discuss the Clean Water Act of 1972. 36. What is a point source pollutant? A non-point source pollutant? 37. What does excess nutrients cause to grow in water resulting in the death of masses of fish? 38. What is stormwater? 39. How can the flow of stormwater be controlled? 40. When a scientist surveys the macroinvertebrates in a body of water, what is he/she studying? 41. Name 4 ways that citizens are making a difference in their communities.
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