Water that falls on the land area sloped toward a stream washes anything soluble
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Water that falls on the land area sloped toward a stream washes anything soluble and many movable objects into the stream. This land area around the stream is called a ____ Where do you live? Water falling on your home would find its way into which large river in Georgia? ____ In order to reach this river it must flow through smaller streams bringing water and any pollution that it has accumulated to the downstream communities. What five things did we measure in order to determine water quality? ___, _____, _____, ____, and _____. Describe what each of these can tell you about the stream quality a. b.Explanation / Answer
3. Answer is Watershed or Drainage basin
A watershed is a land area that delivers surface runoff, sediments and washes anything soluble and movable objects into teh stream.
4. Answer is South River/ Ocmulgee river
The South river is the part of Upper Ocmuglee river watershed in the U S state of Georgia
5. Bacteria, Dissolved oxygen, pH, Nutrients and Toxic substances
6. Bacteria is measured to determine the risk of getting sick. The important bacterias inlcude E. Coli.
The concentration of dissoved oxygen is a single easy to measure characteristic of water thet correlates with the health of aquatic life.
Water pH indicates the balance netween hydrogen ions (acidic) and hydroxyl ions (basic). Water pH is a fundamnetal controlling property of water quality
Nutrients include various amounts of chemical elements like Nitrogen , Phosphorus etc. which will increase the growth of Algae.
Toxic substance include substance which is a disease causing agent which will cause death, malignancy, genetic mutation or other abnormalities
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