Practice - Environmental Quality: Monitoring and Analysis
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Practice Questions
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What is the basic principle of mass balance?
💡 Hint: Think about input and output rates.
What does the box model assume?
💡 Hint: Consider how we analyze different segments of a water body.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the primary focus of pollutant monitoring?
💡 Hint: Recall the main objective outlined in our discussion.
The box model assumes uniform mixing. True or False?
💡 Hint: Think about the assumptions we made when discussing the box model.
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Challenge Problems
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A lake has a steady rate of pollution entry at 5 kg/day and loses 2 kg/day through evaporation. What will be the concentration change given a volume of 1000 m³?
💡 Hint: Consider both generation and loss to calculate net rates.
Discuss how incorporating tributaries with different pollutant concentrations affects the mass balance of a river. How would you adjust your equations?
💡 Hint: Think of each tributary as an additional input into the mass balance.
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