aquatic vocab
What is precipitation
What is The Susquehanna River
Bacteria, protozoa, fungi and algea in water
The description of how water moves through the environment.
Keeps the water clean by filtering the water
Flowing fresh waters
What is lotic
What is a watershed
A fish found in larger,warmer second-order streams
Water changing from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation
Carries the mussel Larvae up stream
What is Eels?
Animals that spend part or all of its life living in water,have no backbone and are big enough to see with your eyes.
What is aquatic macroinvertebrates
The mouth of the river where minerals and sediment are deposited
What is a River Delta
Water that ends up underground
Flies that prefer to live near fast moving streams with stones.
Streams that flow all year long
What are Perennial Streams
A long body of moving water
What is a stream or a river
A fish that lives in warm rivers and like to live around large rocks,downed trees.
What is a Small Mouth Bass
Any water that flows over the surface of the land
What is surface runoff
The Adult stage of the Hellgrammite
What is a Dobsonfly
Measure of water cloudiness
What is turbidity?
Made of first and second order streams which flow into rivers
Biologists are interested in these because they tell us the health of our rivers,streams and other bodies of water.
What are Macroinvertebrates
Water changing through evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, ground water, surface runoff
What is the water cycle
What is Catadromous?