Phenomena
Amount of major River Basins in Texas.
What is 15?
Area of land where water flows toward a body of water.
What is a watershed?
EPA stands for:
What is Environmental Protection Agency?
Year that the Clean Water Act was officially Enacted.
What is 1972?
Force of liquid/gas pushing up on an object.
What is buoyancy?
Amount of bays along the Texas coastline.
What is 7?
1. Flow toward the river source
2. Flow toward the river mouth
What is:
1. Upstream
2. Downstream
Place that separates watersheds (such as the peak of a mountain range).
What is divide?
Stop dumping pollution and restore/maintain bodies of water such as rivers and lakes.
What is the purpose of the Clean Water Act?
3 things that affect density and what makes those denser.
What is:
1. Temperature (colder is denser)
2. Salinity (saltier is denser)
3. Pressure (deeper ocean/more pressure is denser)
River that borders Texas with Oklahoma.
What is Red River?
The watershed and sub-watershed ACHS is located in.
What is Mustang Bayou?
Water is a universal solvent and disperses the solutes.
What is the reason pollution spreads quickly in water?
What is the Cuyahoga River in 1969?
2. Salinity dropping with water depth.
1. Thermocline
2. Halocline
River that borders Texas with Louisiana.
What is Sabine River?
1. Beginning of river
2. End of river
3. Branch that comes off of main river
4. Winding/Curving parts of a river
What is:
1. River Source
2. River Mouth
3. Tributary
4. Meander
1. Flooding causes in rural areas.
2. Flooding causes in urban areas.
What is:
1. Nearby creeks/streams/rivers/lakes at capacity and continued rainfall.
2. What is overwhelmed drainage systems due to permeability of pavement/concrete
Non-point pollution.
What is a challenge to the Clean Water Act including runoff?
Amount of atm's you're under on land at sea level.
What is 1 atm?
River that borders Texas with Mexico.
What is Rio Grande?
1. Elevated area (usually safe from flooding).
2. Flat areas that can flood.
3. Plant life/vegetation around a body of water.
What is:
1. Upland
2. Flood Plain
3. Riparian Zone
2. Abiotic meaning and factors in a watershed ecosystem. (5 things)
What is:
1. Living: People, Plants, Animals
2. Non-living: Sun, soil, air, landforms, water
Specific Gravity Ranges for:
1. Distilled Water
2. Freshwater
3. Brackish
4. Seawater
What is:
1. 1.0
2. 1.0-1.01
3. 1.01-1.02
4. 1.02-1.03
How many atm's of pressure at 100 feet under water.
What is 4 atm?