Chapter 5 - Water Vocabulary

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Environmental Science - Holt, Rinhart and Winston, 2000

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thermal pollution

when excessive amounts of heat are added to a body of water; occurs when power plants and other industries located along lakes and rivers use the water in their cooling systems, and return warm water to river or lake after it has been run through engines