Wetlands
Wetlands provide a good environment for this sport/recreation activity.
What is hunting?
The study of inland bodies of water.
What is limnology?
The expanse of open water in the ocean.
What is the pelagic zone?
Water quality act passed in 1974.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
The internal "ears" of some fish.
What are otoliths?
Acreage of wetlands in North Carolina.
What is 5.7 million acres?
Aquatic equivalent of "biomes."
What are aquatic life zones?
Underwater zone that receives some sunlight, but not enough for plants to survive.
What is the dysphotic zone?
Pesticide widely used from the 1950s.
What is DDT?
Class of bony fish.
What are Osteichthyes?
Wetlands that are contained within a channel and its associated streamside vegetation.
What is a riverine wetland?
These lakes will separate into layers in the summer.
What are mesotrophic lakes?
Causes of potential sea-level rise.
What are melting ice sheets and glaciers -and- thermal expansion of seawater?
Year the Endangered Species Act was passed.
What is 1973?
Characteristic of Chrondrichthyes fish.
What is cartilaginous?
A fire-dependent type of coastal swamps found in the southeastern United States.
What are pocosins?
Lakes that form due to movements of the earth's crust.
What are tectonic lakes?
Grams of salt per liter in seawater.
What is 35 grams/liter?
Act passed in 1972 to protect the oceans.
What is the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act?
Fish that are jawless and lack paired fins.
What are agnatha fish?
Percentage of endangered plants and animals in North Carolina that are wetland dependent.
What is 70%?
Also known as crater lakes.
What are meteorite lakes?
The five named oceans according to the Aquatics manual.
What are Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern?
The first Federal act to address water pollution.
What is the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948?
Water pH level at which adult fish die.
What is 4?