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Name the two compounds that form acid rain
what are nitrous oxides and sulfur dioxide?
the release of substances into subsurface groundwater or into lakes, streams, rivers, estuaries, and oceans to the point that the substances interfere with beneficial use of the water or with the natural functioning of ecosystems.
What is water pollution?
An important factor of an aquatic animal's everyday life that is disrupted by aquatic noise pollution.
What is Echolocation?
Many aquatic animals use biological sonar for echolocation, allowing them to communicate, find each other, find mates, hunt, and avoid predators.
The type of light that reaches the deepest in the ocean, out of all other lights.
What is blue light?
Blue light reaches the farthest in the ocean compared to red and green light. Blue light can reach up to 1000m below the ocean surface. It just so happens that most of the light we use relies mostly on blue light.
What type of runoff carries harmful chemicals from factories into waterways?
What is Industrial runoff?
In Baltimore, the leading contributor to industrial runoff are the Patapsco & Bank River wastewater Treatment Plants. Managed by Baltimore City, these two facilities are Maryland’s largest wastewater plants. They have suffered severe operational failures, lawsuits from the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), and federal consent decrees because of massive, illegal discharges of nitrogen, phosphorus, and raw sewage into the Patapsco River and its tributaries in the Chesapeake Bay.
what are two ways nitrogen compounds enter the air and eventually water bodies?
what are vehicle emissions and industrial pollutants?
Name 2 major causes of water run off.
What is
Agricultural runoff
Industrial waste
Sewage and wastewater
Urban runoff
Plastic and solid waste
One major health risk and impact of noise pollution on aquatic animals.
What is hearing loss/hearing damage?
The noise from ships, sonar devices, and seismic surveys can damage the inner ear of fish in the area, leading to permanent or temporary hearing loss. The constant noise can also lead to a change in a fish's auditory threshold, making it so they can hear the chronic noise, but not the environment around them.
What light do many aquatic organisms rely on that is outshone by artificial light?
What is moonlight?
Moonlight is light produced from the moon, which can vary in brightness depending on the time of the month, this helps determine the mating and reproduction periods, the eating patterns, and the migration patterns for a lot of aquatic organisms.
What are 2 negative effects of polluted runoff on the environment?
What is Harm to aquatic life, poor water quality, and contaminated reaction areas
What can excess nitrogen do to the environment?
what is cause algal blooms?
The three types of water affected by water pollution.
What is groundwater, surface water, and ocean water?
A major mass event that was caused by naval sonar devices.
What is beaching?
Beaching is when a marine mammal gets stuck on shore. In January 2005, 34 whales were beached and died due to the abrupt use of naval sonar devices.
The reproduction of which major aquatic ecosystem is affected by light pollution?
What are coral reefs?
Corals release their sperm and eggs at their most fertile time of the month, and they know this based on the light from the moon cycle, which is disrupted by artificial light.
What are 2 nutrients from agricultural runoff that can cause excessive plant growth in water?
What are Nitrogen and Phosphorus
This tends to happen after rainfall or snowmelt because it can carry these nutrients and diffrent kinds of herbicides and fungicides.
What are the two heavy metals that can cause neurological and reproductive harm all the way up the food chain?
What are mercury and lead?
How long does it take for the majority of items dumped into the ocean to decompose?
what is anywhere between two and two hundred years?
The number of decibels a naval sonar system can reach.
What is 235 dB?
A naval sonar device can reach up to 235 dB. That's around 30-55 decibels louder than a rocket launch or explosion. Keep in mind the pain threshold is 120dB.
A high-impact aquatic organism that has had its feeding patterns disrupted by artificial light.
What is zooplankton?
A high-impact organism that is foundational to the food chain. Zooplankton hide during the day to avoid predators and, at night, come up to the surface to feed on phytoplankton and microzooplankton. If the surface is constantly bright due to artificial light, the Zooplankton will stay in the deep waters and eat less. They might also migrate into deeper waters.
What is the process called when excess nutrients cause rapid plant growth and reduce oxygen in water?
What is eutrophication
This process follows and very predictable chain reaction
1. Nutrient runoff
2. Algal bloom
3. Blocking light
4. Decomposition and oxygen deletion
5. Dead zone
Define Eutrophication
What is the excessive presence of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus within water bodies?
what is an area of water that contains so little oxygen that marine life can't survive in them?
What is a "dead zone"?
The speed at which sound travels through water.
What is 1500 meters per second?
At 1500 meters per second, sound travels around 4 times as fast as sound travels through air, which travels at 343 meters per second. It's also important to note that sound doesn't just move fast in water, but it also travels farther.
What do these acronyms stand for?
ALAN and ELP
What is Artificial Light at Night and Ecological Light Pollution?
What is the fastest-growing source of nitrogen pollution on the Chesapeake Bay?
What is polluted runoff from urban and suburban areas?
The top 3 urban and suburban areas that affect the Chesapeake Bay are
1. Curtis Bay
2. Hawkins Point
3. Jones Falls