Water Cycle
This sphere of the Earth deals with all of its water.
What is the hydrosphere?
About 75%
How much of Earth is covered in water?
A body of water partially surrounded by land with a mouth more narrow than a gulf.
What is a Bay?
Tiny producers that are the basis of the Bay's food web.
What are phytoplankton?
This type of pollution can be caused by overdeveloping land and removing vegetation.
What is sediment pollution?
The moving of water through all of Earth's spheres and each of its states of matter.
What is the water cycle?
In glaciers and icecaps.
Where is most of Earth's freshwater stored?
The largest estuary in North America.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
The tropic level of an organism that eats a producer.
What is a primary consumer?
This type of pollution often leads to algae blooms.
What is nutrient pollution?
The changing of water from its liquid to its solid state.
What is freezing?
These are underground water supplies.
What are aquifers?
The largest tributary that flows to the Chesapeake Bay.
What is the Susquehannah River?
A visual representation of the transfer of energy and nutrients in an ecosystem.
What is a food web/chain?
This type of pollution happens when there are too many microscopic organisms in the water.
What is bacterial pllution?
100 degrees Celsius
What is the boiling point of water?
An area of land with waterways that flow towards a larger body of water.
What is a watershed?
The
Susquehanna
Potomac
Rappahannock
York
James
Choptank
What are the six main tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay?
The trophic level that eats secondary consumers.
What is a tertiary consumer?
Nitrogen and phosphorus are often added to the water from farms causing this type of pollution.
What is nutrient pollution?
The process by which water vapor becomes liquid water.
What is condensation?
A partly enclosed coastal body of water in which river water is mixed with seawater.
What is an estuary?
Into the Atlantic Ocean.
Where does the Chesapeake Bay empty?
The sun
Where does the energy to start a food web come from?
Trash from dumpsters making its way to the bay is a form of this type of pollution.
What is toxic pollution?