Importance and Availability of Water
The cycle that constantly supplies fresh water.
Water cycle
Feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
Food web
Warm-blooded, direct transfer for reproduction, covered in hair, and nursing their young are characteristics of:
Mammals
An area of land that is saturated with water for a long period of time.
Wetland
Used to measure water turbidity.
Secchi disc
This type of water covers the majority of Earth's surface.
Salt water
3 abiotic factors that can impact fish in an estuary.
Sunlight, dirt, oxygen, salinity, and temperature
Obtains food that is suspended in the water column by filtering.
Filter feeders
Layers of water that separate into different temperature zones.
Thermal stratification
The bioassessment of invertebrates that are present in a fresh body of water.
Macroinvertebrate sampling
This is the water that filters through sediments and rocks beneath the surface of the earth.
Groundwater
Dense plant growth and depletion of oxygen are caused by this excess of nutrients in bodies of water.
Eutrophication
A living organism enclosed into two shells.
Bivalve
2 ways that aquatic environments are threatened.
Destruction and loss of habitat, overexploited natural areas, water pollution, water flow modification, and invasion of foreign species
A source of pollution that is spread by rain or snow that is carried back to bodies of water. Not typically able to identify the source.
Non-point pollution
This feature of water helps keep water temperatures more regulated when the temperatures outside change.
Heat capacity
The symbiotic relationship between algae and fungi forms lichens that grow on rocks in freshwater ecosystems.
Mutualism
Immature stages of larger animals that are microscopic size and mostly lacking a backbone.
Zooplankton
The deepest part of a body of water that receives no sunlight.
Aphotic
A solution to eutrophication, erosion, and disappearing habitats for small animals.
Riparian buffers
The angle found between hydrogen atoms in a water molecule helps contribute to its polarity.
104.5 Degrees
5 standard aquatic species of fish for the Envirothon.
American Shad, Bluegill, Crappie, Largemouth Bass, and Brook Trout
Form of reproduction that fertilizes internally, hatches externally, and uses a low amount of energy.
Lecithotrophic
The youngest stage of a lake or pond.
Oligotrophic
Legislation that regulates what is being dumped into rivers and streams across the United States.
The Clean Water Act of 1972