SO Unit 02 - Water Pollution - Online class

Water pollution occurs when harmful substances contaminate a stream, river, lake, ocean, or other body of water, [...].

substance means:

Water is able to dissolve more substances than any other liquid on earth.

dissolve means:

Groundwater gets polluted when contaminants from pesticides and fertilizers to waste of landfills and bacteria-infected systems make their way into the layers of rock and sand containing it [...].

landfills means

While plants and animals need these nutrients to grow, they have become a major pollutant due to farm waste and fertilizer runoff.

runoff means

Contaminants such as chemicals, nutrients, and heavy metals are carried from farms, factories, and cities by streams and rivers into our bays and estuaries; from there they travel out to sea.

estuaries means

Meanwhile, marine debris particularly plastic is blown in by the wind or washed in via storm, drains and sewers.

debris means

Meanwhile, marine debris particularly plastic is blown in by the wind or washed in via storm, drains and sewers.

sewers means