What is the water cycle process that creates clouds
Condensation
100
The process by which humans use to get nitrogen that they can use
What is eating
100
The gas that humans exhale
What is carbon dioxide
100
When you see many of these along the banks of a stream or river it is typically a good sign because they will help absorb pollution before it runs into the stream
What is trees and shrubs?
100
A large aquatic insect that can help determine the quality of water in a stream
What is a macroinvertebrate?
200
Water that flows off the surface of the land
What is runoff
200
There is 78% of unusable nitrogen in this
What is the air
200
Plants use this (along with water and sunlight) to make sugars, water and oxygen in photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide?
200
What is name of various sources of pollution that are not easy to point out
What is non-point source pollution?
200
Running bodies of water
What is lotic?
300
Water that can fall as sleet, snow, hail, rain or freezing rain
What is precipitation
300
the process by which bacteria or lightening make nitrogen into a usable form for plants
What is nitrogen fixation
300
The biggest producer of oxygen for our atmosphere
What is plants
300
The area of land in which all water drains into other bodies of water
What is a watershed?
300
Still bodies of water
What is lentic?
400
The process by which plants release water vapor into the air
What is transpiration
400
Why is nitrogen important
What is helping to make DNA, repair cells and/or make proteins
400
The process by which humans use oxygen and the food they eat to make energy, carbon dioxide and water
What is respiration
400
A body of water where fresh and saltwater meet
What is a bay or estuary?
400
The name given to smaller bodies of water that flow into larger bodies of water
What is a tributary?
500
The process when water enters the ground
What is Infiltration
500
These particular types of plants contains root nodules that can help fix nitrogen
legumes
500
Besides breathing, what is another thing that humans do that releases a lot of carbon dioxide into the air
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
500
Name one pollution sensitive species of macroinvertebrates that we used in our skittles lab
What is the water penny or the mayfly nymph?
500
What is the name of the major watershed basin you live in?