Water Items
The area of land in which water passes downward or sideways into an aquifer.
What is a recharge zone (area)?
Loose soil made up of small silicate particles.
What is sand?
Taxonomic order of crayfish.
What is Decapoda?
Pollution caused by discharge of power plant cooling water.
What is thermal pollution?
These plants extend their stems and leaves out of the water.
What are emergent plants?
The mixing of waters caused by temperature change in ponds.
What is overturn/turnover?
A periodically repeated series of events.
What is a cycle?
It resembles hellgrammites but has no gill tufts.
What are fishfly larva?
Over the past 50 years, temperatures have increased rapidly in this region.
What is the North Polar region?
Fish go through this type of metamorphosis.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
Stream gauges measure "stream stage," also known as this.
What is water height?
Active at night.
What is nocturnal?
These Type 1 larvae build a case from aquatic debris.
What are caddisflies?
Uranium is an example of this kind of aquatic resource.
What is radioactive material?
This fire-dependent wetland is characterized by spongy soil.
What is a pocosin?
What is the hydrosphere?
The source of energy on earth.
What is the sun?
Depth at which bluegills prefer to live.
What is 1 to 20 feet?
Calculated by examining the types of macroinvertebrates in a body of water.
What is the biotic index?
Freshwater marshes are dominated by these.
What are herbaceous plants?
A wetland dominated by trees.
What is a swamp?
Mrs. Leugers's current age.
What is 53?
A shad's swim bladder can do this weird thing.
What is sense the echolocation clicks from dolphins?
What is phytoplankton?
The quantity of suspended materials in a body of water.
What is turbidity?