1. The flow of groundwater into sanitary sewers?

a. Inflow
b. Infiltration
c. Filtration
d. None of the above
Answer: Infiltration
2. A system of underground pipes that carries sewage from
bathrooms, sinks, kitchens, and other plumbing
components to a wastewater treatment plant where it is
filtered treated and discharged.
a. Combination Sewer
b. Storm Sewer
c. Sanitary Sewer
d. Sewer Lines
Answer: Sanitary Sewer
3. The process of converting wastewater into water that can
be discharged back into the environment.
a. Wastewater Treatment
b. Water waste Treatment
c. Onsite Treatment
d. Central Wastewater Treatment
Answer: Wastewater Treatment
4.  The solid material that settles at the bottom of your septic
tank to form a thick layer.
a. Slum
b. Effluent
c. Sludge
d. None of the above
Answer: Sludge
5. A buried, watertight tank designated and constructed to
receive and partially treat raw domestic sanitary
wastewater?
a. Septic System
b. Drip Distribution System
c. Conventional System
d. Septic tank
Answer: Septic Tank
6. Surface water that enters the wastewater system from
yard, roof, and footing drains, from cross-connections with
storm drains and downspouts, and through holes in
manhole covers.
a. Inflow
b. Infiltration
c. Filtration
d. None of the above
Answer: Inflow
7. An alternative system that uses a network of tubing to
disperse effluent over a large area.
a. Chamber System
b. Conventional System
c. Drip Distribution System
d. Septic System
Answer: Drip Distribution
8. Uses oxygen to generate a biological process within the
treatment system to assist in the breakdown of solid and
liquid waste?
a. Drip Distribution System
b. Aerobic Treatment Unit
c. Mound System
d. Evapotranspiration System

Answer: Aerobic Treatment Unit

9. Is an outflowing of water or gas to a natural body of water,
from a structure such as a sewage treatment plant, sewer
pipe, and industrial wastewater?
a. Slum
b. Effluent
c. Sludge
d. None of the above
Answer: Effluent
10. Uses a combined process of coagulation, flocculation,
sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection. It treats water in a
central location and then distributes water via dedicated
distribution networks.
a. Central Wastewater Treatment
b. Onsite Wastewater Treatment
c. Wastewater Treatment
d. None of the above
Answer: Central Wastewater Treatment
11. A man-made recreation of the environment’s natural
wetlands. These types of systems may be necessary at houses
where the soil is not easily penetrated.
a. Chamber System
b. Aerobic Treatment Unit
c. Constructed Wetland System
d. Septic System
Answer: Constructed Wetland System
12. Primary treatment removes material that will either float or
readily settle out by.
a. metal
b. wood
c. grid
d. gravity
13. They block floating debris such as.
a. wood
b. gravity
c. metal
d. grid
14. _____removal and sedimentation,
Screens are made of long, closely spaced, narrow metal bars.
a. grid
b. metal
c. wood
d. gravity
15. Removal of soluble organic matter at the treatment plant
helps to protect the dissolved oxygen balance of a
receiving stream,_____,or lake.
a. water
b. carbon dioxide
c. energy
d. river

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