Terms and Phrases
When water molecules are attracted to other water molecules
What is cohesion?
Wetlands characterized by woody plants
What is a swamp?
An organism that eats producers is considered this
What is a primary consumer?
This is the zone where the ocean meets the land between high and low tides
What is intertidal zone?
the reason why water is considered a polar molecule?
The beginning of a stream or river
What is the headwater?
A map that shows the shape, elevation and physical features of the land
What is topography?
If water is hypoxic what is it lacking?
What is oxygen?
The name of the smallest ocean
What is the Arctic?
An area of rock underground where water can move around
What is an aquifer?
The aphotic zone in the ocean lacks this.
What is sunlight?
The area on both sides of a stream or river that contains grass, shrubs and trees.
What is the riparian zone?
How many states are in the Chesapeake Bay watershed?
What is 6?
A chain of mountains found in the ocean
What are the mid-ocean ridges?
Nekton refers to organisms that can
Water that is entering into a wastewater treatment plant
What is influent?
The lines on a topographic map that connect points of equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
The name of the sub-watershed that we live in
What is the Choptank?
The process where water from the bottom of the ocean mixes with the layer on top
What is upwelling?
The process where a solid that goes directly into a gas
What is sublimation?
The zone which is considered open ocean
What is the pelagic zone?
The study of freshwater systems
What is limnology?
What is Cooperstown NY?
What surface currents driven by
What is wind?
The process where crustal plates slip underneath another plate and sinks into the mantle
What is subduction?