Author: MTech

Water Clean Up Activity

Identify some different kinds of pollution?__________________________________________________________________
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List some sources of pollution? ________________________________________
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What do you think the pH of the polluted water is and why? (Refer to figure to help make an educated guess)______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Now measure the pH. What was the value?_____

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Water Clean Up Activity

Pollution Removal

Pollutant	What tool (s) are you going to use to remove it?	Did it work?
Vegetable Oil (Petroleum)
Leaf Litter (Sewage and Organic Waste)
Dirt (Sediments)
Fertilizer (Nutrients)
Detergents (Chemicals)
Food Coloring (pathogens, toxic chemicals, heavy metals)
Litter
Vinegar (acid rain)

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Water Clean Up Activity

Connect the kind of pollution with the picture of the pollution.

Petroleum (Motor Oil)
Sediments (Dirt)
Oxygen Depleting Nutrients (Fertilizers and Manure)
Acid Rain
Trash
Toxic Chemicals

What do you think the pH of the polluted water is and why? (Refer to figure to help make and educated guess)
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________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Now measure the pH. What was the value?_____

Pollution Removal

Pollutant	What tool (s) are you going to use to remove it?	Did it work?
Vegetable Oil (Petroleum)
Leaf Litter (Sewage and Organic Waste)
Dirt (Sediments)
Fertilizer (Nutrients)
Detergents (Chemicals)
Food Coloring (pathogens, toxic chemicals, heavy metals)
Litter
Vinegar (acid rain)