Human Impact on Oceans
This is the term for the movement of water through the Earth's surface and underground, which can be negatively impacted by human activity.
What is the water cycle?
This system of the human body is responsible for transporting oxygen, nutrients, and waste throughout the body.
What is the circulatory system?
This is the basic unit of life that makes up all living organisms.
What is a cell?
This type of muscle is responsible for the movement of bones and is under voluntary control.
What is skeletal muscle?
This is the term for any liquid or solid water found on Earth's surface, including rivers, lakes, and wetlands.
What is surface water?
This type of human activity can lead to the contamination of groundwater with chemicals and pollutants.
What is industrial waste disposal?
This system helps humans breathe by exchanging gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs.
What is the respiratory system?
These are groups of similar cells that perform a specific function in the body.
What are tissues?
This muscle, found in the heart, is unique because it contracts involuntarily and is striated.
What is cardiac muscle?
This type of water feature is formed when streams flow together and eventually merge into a larger body of water such as a lake, ocean, or another river.
What is a river system?
Planting these at the bank a lake or river can prevent erosion and benefit the water system.
This system protects the body from disease and helps heal wounds.
What is the immune system?
These structures are made up of two or more tissues working together to perform a particular function in the body.
What are organs?
This is the hardest tissue in the human body, providing structure and strength to bones.
What is bone (or bone tissue)?
Pollution is often carried by this water that doesn't soak in to the ground and flows into waterways.
What is runoff?
This type of human action, especially when excessive, can lead to depletion of surface water resources in a watershed.
What is water waste?
This system is responsible for breaking down food into nutrients for energy and growth.
What is the digestive system?
This is a group of organs that work together to carry out a complex function in the body.
What is an organ system?
The skeletal system has six main jobs which include shape, protection, storing and releasing minerals, and
What are movement, support, producing blood cells.
Water that sinks into the ground when it rains.
What is groundwater?
This term describes the area of land where water drains into a common waterbody, which can be influenced by human activity.
What is a watershed?
The system that controls voluntary and involuntary actions, and transmits signals throughout the body.
What is the nervous system?
In plants and animals, the organization of these four levels ensures the proper functioning of living organisms.
What are cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems?
These two systems are responsible for feeling the pain of a broken leg.
What are the skeletal and nervous systems?
Limiting water use, reduce our use of pollutants, preventing leaking into groundwater, removing pollutants from contaminated groundwater and its surface water sources.
What are ways humans can positively impact groundwater?