depths and lengths
This volcano blew its top creating the deepest lake in America
What is Crater Lake?
This is what we call where streams and rivers begin.
What is headwaters?
Shifting geological forces and glaciers are can create these.
What are lakes?
This region of lakes and rivers typically has many more species of fish.
What is tropical?
This is the lowest temperature a river can reach.
What is zero degrees celcius?
This river we studied in Ancient Egypt is the longest in the world.
What is the Nile ?
This is the area outside of an active river channel
What is a riparian zone?
These geological features contain 20% of the worlds freshwater
What are the Great Lakes?
This zone of a lake is where plants take root and grow.
What is the Littoral Zone?
This river once caught on fire from the pollution in it.
What is the Cuyahoga?
This river running through middle Africa is the deepest in the world at 720 feet deep.
What is the congo?
This term refers to amount of water carried by a river.
What is river discharge?
This is another name for the upper layer of a lake.
What is the epilimnion?
This river has over 2,000 species of fish. You might even get some shipped to you.
What is the Amazon?
This is the temperature at which water is the densest.
What is four degrees Celsius?
The deepest lake in the world found in Russia is a result of two tectonic plates separating.
What is Lake Baikal?
These features help identify the maturity of a river.
What are the turns?
This is the term to describe the how lakes get colder as you get deeper.
What is thermocline?
These fish like to live in low oxygen areas. Watch the whiskers!
What are catfish?
this region's lakes are stratified the same all year
What is the tropics?
Mr. Paul spent a winter near this second deepest lake in America.
What is Lake Tahoe?
This part of the river has the most oxygen
What are the headwaters?
This is the ratio of dropping temperatures to depth of water.
What is one degree per meter?
This is Pennsylvania's state fish
What is the Brook Trout?
Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario are collectively know as this.
What are the Great Lakes?