Ocean Zones
Suface to 200m (1st)
What is the Epipelagic Zone
Always contains water
Only contains water during floods
What are the Wetted vs. Active Zones
Shallow shoreline affected by tides
What is the Littoral or Intertidal Zone
A measure of the water caried by a river
increase caused by -
decrease caused by -
What is River Discharge
Torrential Rains
Droughts
An area of a continent or island that is drained by a river drainage network. Divided along three dimentions...
What is a River Basin
Length, Width and Depth
1000m to 4000m (3rd)
What is the Bathypelagic Zone
Tranisition between aquatic environment and upland terrestrial community
What is the Riparian Zone
Beyond nertic
What is the Oceanic Zone
Theory of river ecology indentifying periodic flooding as an essential organizer of river ecosystem structure and functioning
What is the Flood Pulse Concept
Deeper segment, longer water resistance time, slow flow
What is a Pool
4000m to 6000m (4th)
What is the Abyssal Zone
Vertical Layers of a River
Water Surface
Water Column
Benthic Zone
From coast to the margin of the continental shelf
What is the Nertic Zone
Where would you find organisms that consume coarse particulate organic matter
What are Shady headwaters
Shallow segment, short water resistance time, fast flow
What is a Riffle
200m to 1000m (2nd)
What is the Mesophelagic Zone
Below Benthic zone
Hyperheic Zone
Habitat above bottom and bottom habitat
What is the Pelagic Zone
What is the Benthic Zone
Predicts changes in physical structure, dominant organisms and ecosystem processes along length of temporate rivers
What is the River Continuum Concept
Intermediate depth segment, connects riffles and pools
What is a Run
Deepest Parts of the Ocean
What is the Hadel Zone
Below the Hyporheic zone. Groundwater
Pheratic Zone
What is Upwelling and Downwelling
Where would you find organisms that consume fine particulate matter
What is a Large warm downstream regions
Upper layers of oceans/lakes where there is enough light to support phyotosynthesis (first __m)
What is the Photic Zone
First 10m