Basics
Growing, living in, or frequenting waters.
What is "aquatic"?
The science of managing fish populations.
What is fisheries management?
Relating to or living in deep, open water.
What is "pelagic"?
Organisms suspended in an aquatic habitat that do not control their own movements.
What are plankton?
Fresh water from precipitation and melting ice that flows on the ground to bodies of water.
What is runoff water?
A periodically repeated sequence of events.
What is a cycle?
A group that keeps records on fish catches and supports sport fishing.
What is International Game Fish Association (IGFA)?
The level area at the bottom of a basin that is often covered with water.
What is a playa?
Microscopic floating and suspended aquatic plants.
What is phytoplankton?
Water with salt in it, such as an ocean or sea.
What is saltwater?
Level of salt in a given substance including water.
What is salinity?
Fins on each side of a fish's belly that aid in positioning and balance.
What are pelvic fins?
Zone of water at the bottom of deep, open water.
What is the profundal zone?
A number of fish of the same species that are grouped together.
What is a school?
Water that runs off cropland during irrigation.
What is waste water?
The land area where all rain drains into a specific body of water.
What is a watershed?
A nest dug out on the bottom of a body of water by spawning trout.
What is a redd?
A swampy place or marshy inlet.
What is a slough?
Plankton that consists of animals such as coral, sea anemones, and jellyfish.
What are zooplankton?
A regular rising and falling or side-to-side motion.
What is "undulating"?
An area where the water table stands at or above the land surface at least part of the year.
What is a wetland?
One of the small covering plates on the body of many fish.
What is a scale?
A wetland dominated by trees.
What is a swamp?
Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended.
What is "turbid"?
An area adjacent to a stream that is managed to protect water quality.
What is a Streamside Management Zone (SMZ)?