Water Pollution Objective Sheet
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Name ____________________________
Date ________ Period ______________
What is the difference between point and non-point sources of pollution? Give examples of each
kind. Which kind is harder to clean up and why?
What is the difference between the words “pollutant”, “cause” and “effect”?
What is a pathogen? Give examples of diseases caused by pathogens.
Describe the problem Lake Houston is having because of new development upstream.
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List the types of tests done to determine the quality of water. Explain what the ideal level of each
test would be.
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Where does Houston’s drinking water come from?
How are subsidence and overdraft related? Name the aquifer under Houston and explain why it is
not being used any more.
Describe the tradeoffs between using surface water and ground water.
How is your drinking water purified? Identify and describe all the steps.
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10. What is an aquifer? How is a recharge zone related to an aquifer?
11. What happens when a recharge zone is covered in pavement?
12. Where are the Edwards aquifer and the Ogallala aquifer? Explain why each of these is suffering
from overdraft.
13. What are some of the tradeoffs (benefits and drawbacks) of drinking bottled water?
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Describe the causes and effects of the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
What is dissolved oxygen (DO) and why is it important for aquatic life? (DO)
How does DO get into water?
What pollutants lower DO?
18. Describe how a sewage treatment plant works. (There are 6 steps)
19. What pollution sources are found in the Houston Ship Channel? Why types of pollutants would
each create?
20. Describe five ways to increase the supply of water available for human consumption and explain
the tradeoffs (benefits and drawbacks) of each.
21. Describe the three ways to desalinate salt water. Explain which one is used most often and why.
22. What is the difference between water conservation behaviors and water conservation fixtures?
Give several examples of each.
23. Describe grey water reuse and its tradeoffs. Give examples of where grey water is being used in
Texas.
24. Identify the main users of water in Texas.
THROW BACK OBJECTIVES!!! (You need to master these concepts to master the new
material!)
25. Label a diagram of the water cycle. Understand all the processes and locations in the cycle.
26. How is climate change altering the water cycle?
27. How much of the planet’s water is available for human consumption? In what forms is the rest of
the water supply?
28. Explain why Buffalo Bayou is called fresh water.
29. Define watershed, tributaries, floodplain, river source, river mouth. Know which direction is
upstream and which is downstream. On any map, be able to locate all these parts of a watershed.
30. Name your watershed. Name the course rain water takes when it rains on WHS, all the way from
the high school to the Gulf of Mexico.
31. What is the difference between storm drains in the street and the drains that carry water from your
sink?
32. What kinds of materials commonly get washed down storm drains that shouldn’t go down them?
Wed Feb 11/Th Feb 12
Fri Feb 13
Water intro – Growth and danger in the
river; Read Houston Chronicle Article
Activity: Practicing
water quality
testing
Interactive Notebook: Cause and Effect:
Bacteria in Houston’s waterways
Introduce Ship
Channel Poster
Project: Chose topic
Monday Feb 16
Tuesday Feb 17
Wed Feb 18/Thursday Feb 19
Friday Feb 20
Interactive
Notebook:
Houston’s water
sources
Activity: Water
filter challenge
Quiz – Obj #1-12
Worksheet:
Watershed review
and Eutrophication
Confirm Project
topic choice
Monday Feb 23
Start LAB – Water
quality on Buffalo
Bayou (get lab
sheet, make
hypothesis, practice
water quality tests
with tap water)
Discuss Ship
Channel Project
Mon March 2
Project Work Day
Quiz – Obj #13-19
HW – Ship Channel
Project
Monday March 9
WATER
POLLUTION
TEST!
Interactive
Notebook: Texas
Aquifers
HW – Study for
quiz tomorrow:
Obj #1-12
Tuesday Feb 24
Interactive
notebook: Sewage
treatment
Prepare for Field
Trip!
Movie: Tapped (Do you REALLY want
that bottle of water????)
Interactive Notebook: Tradeoffs of bottled
water
Wed Feb 25
Thursday Feb 26
Friday Feb 27
FIELD TRIP!!!!!
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2nd period: Work on
project
Complete Lab
Write up –
MAJOR GRADE
Dress for the
weather
Closed-toe shoes
Big lunch and
drink
Camera/phone
Tuesday March 3
Wed March 4 /Thursday March 5
Friday March 6
Interactive
notebook: 5 ways
to increase water
availability
PROJECTS DUE!!!!!
MAJOR GRADE
Review Day!
HW – Project Due
Next Class!