Know Your Nutrients
These two elements are commonly found in fertilizers
What are Nitrogen & Phosphorus?
The concentration of oxygen in water is referred to as this
What is Dissolved Oxygen (DO)?
Rainwater that flows over land and drains into streams
What is Runoff?
Hypoxic conditions occur in this northeastern Bay, known widely for its blue crabs
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
This explosive increase of phytoplankton populations contributes to hypoxic conditions
What is an algal bloom?
These three nutrients are necessary for growth of diatoms and other phytoplankton
What are Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Silica?
The absence of dissolved oxygen in water causes this condition
What is anoxia?
This type of pollution comes from a single source, for instance a specific pipe at a factory
What is Point Pollution?
Hypoxia has been reported in this U.S. water body, which is bordered by three states.
What is Long Island Sound?
These animals escape hypoxic conditions by leaving the area.
What are crabs, shrimp and fish?
This process is caused by an increase in organic production where nutrient supply is high.
What is eutrophication?
This term refers to the movement of water and materials from one place to another
What is Flux?
This type of pollution comes primarily from agricultural and urban runoff and other sources
What is Non-point Pollution?
The largest hypoxic area in the U.S. occurs in this water body.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
These animals cannot escape hypoxic conditions because they cannot move.
What are worms and clams? (Any sessile organisms)
Term for low levels of oxygen in a body of water
What is hypoxia?
An area is considered hypoxic when dissolved oxygen is below this concentration
What is 2mg/L?
Extra nutrients that flow into watersheds come from these household products
What are garden fertilizer, detergents, and pet waste?
Could also come from animal manure, sewage treatment plant discharge, stormwater runoff, cars and power plants, failing septic tanks
This hypoxic sea is bordered by Romania, Bulgaria and Russia.
What is the Black Sea?
These organisms use up oxygen while decomposing dead plants and animals.
What are bacteria?