Vocabulary
An area of vegetation that surrounds a body of water and protects it from runoff of pollution
What is a buffer zone?
algae bacteria, fungi, zooplankton, and phytoplankton are examples of
What are microorganisms?
This happens when the temp of surface water flips in the spring and fall
What is overturn?
One single living thing is called an organism. All life on Earth exists in this (falls under this category)
What is biosphere?
The most economical fish species in WI and MN lakes
What are walleye?
The main driver of the wastewater treatment process in Rice Lake (Reason for the big pumps)
What is bacteria?
Most of the lakes in WI and MN are this type of lake
What is a glacial lake?
small, green, producers, found in WI ponds, rivers, lakes
What is algae
The saturation of water depends on these two measurements
What is temperature and dissolved oxygen?
four sources of water pollution
What is human wastes, industrial wastes,, agricultural, chemical run off, storm run-off?
any substance that has a negative effect on water or living things that depend on the water
What is a pollutant (water pollution)?
A zone located between a freshwater and marine water biome
What is an estuary?
algae bloom due to excess nutrients
What is eutrophication?
agricultural run-off may cause algae bloom if these 2 nutrients get out of balance
What are nitrates or phosphates?
polluted surface water that runs into these gets cleaned naturally (ex: MS Pond)
What are storm sewer ponds or retention ponds?
Another name for the bottom of the lake? (_______ zone)
What is benthic zone?
land area that supplies water to a river/stream system
What is a watershed?
stoneflies, caddis flies, and red tailed mites (Organisms used in the FBI)
What are macroinvertebrates?
Typically, we measure water quality tests using this unit
What is parts per million?
3 products of the Wastewater Treatment Plant are
What is sludge, methane gas, and effluent water?
5 kinds(classes) of animals found in wetland ecosystem
What are birds, reptiles, amphians, fish, mammals ?