WED
What is surface water?
Water that is on the surface or the top of land
What most likely creates riverbeds?
water erosion
How does the agricultural activity most likely affect the surface water of the area
Excess crop fertilizer is carried by runoff into the river, causing excess growth of algae.
lightning striking rock causes it to break apart. What is this an example of?
Weathering
What human body system is responsible for sending and delivering messages?
The nervous system
Which processes transform a jagged mountain top into a smooth mountain top?
A combination of mechanical weathering from ice, wind and sand.
Waves hitting and breaking down rock is an example of what?
Weathering
A leaking septic system is bad for the environment how?
The chemicals inside could leak out and pollute the groundwater
Wind carries sediments away, what is this an example of?
Erosion
What is mitochondria?
The organelle that creates energy for the cell in the form of ATP
How do the industrial, agricultural, and residential activities of humans most likely affect the groundwater in the area?
Pollutants from the activities percolate through the soil and enter the water table.
This is the ecoregion in which we live. It is characterized by beaches that run down the Texas Coastline from the border of Texas / Louisiana to the border of Mexico
Gulf coast prairie and marshes
A landslide carries many tons of rock from a hillside into a valley. All of the plants in the valley are buried. New plants that begin to grow in the valley after the landslide will MOST LIKELY lack —
rich soil
Sediments get placed somewhere else. What is this called?
Deposition
Wildebeests are cow-like animals with horns. They migrate in herds across Africa in search of the grasses they feed on. Wildebeests are prey for lions. A drought would MOST LIKELY cause a herd of wildebeests to —
Die out or migrate further than usual
How do sandbars form off shore?
Waves eroded the beach back into the water
Located in the Panhandle of Texas. It is characterized by short grass prairies and shrubby tress like mesquite. Palo Duro Canyon is located in this ecoregion and is America’s second largest canyon.
Rolling and High Plains
What most likely creates riverbeds?
Water erosion
Hurricane Katrina had a dramatic affect on many coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico. The following pictures show a stretch of beach in Texas before and after the storm made landfall. What effect will the storms erosive damage most likely have on this section of beach in the future?
The loss of vegetation along the coast will increase the amount of beach erosion in the future, making the beach smaller.
What type of cell does not have a nucleus?
Prokaryote
In areas where limestone is present underground, water traveling through earth’s crust contains acids. Which processes are directly responsible for changing the limestone in a cave?
Chemical weathering and erosion
make a prediction as to why during Hurricane Harvey, many of the beaches in Southern part of the Gulf Coast like the Padre Island National Seashore became smaller.
"The sediment that was eroded away from the southern beaches was then deposited on the Galveston beaches."
Which weather event is most likely to cause a forest fire?
a lightning strike
A volcanic eruption covers a wide area of forest with ash, lava, and volcanic rock.
What describes the first stage of ecological succession that will begin to return biotic factors to the forest community and return it to a state of equilibrium?
Lichens grow on the rocks.
What system of the body is responsible for delivering nutrients and waste throughout the body?
*Hint: it involves the blood
The circulatory system aka cardiovascular system