vocabulary
The Water Cycle
Where is our water?
Watershed
Field Trip Labs
100
water which is not absorbed by soil that flows over the ground into bodies of water
What is runoff?
100
This falls to Earth as rain or snow..
What is precipitation?
100
most of the Earth's water is here
What is the ocean?
100
The source of a river or stream
What is "headwaters"?
100
We dissected one of these to look for possible pollutants.
What is a fish?
200
When a substance builds up in an organism...
What is bioaccumulation?
200
The water in the clouds is known as...
What is condensation?
200
About how much of the Earth's water is salt water?
What is about 96-97%
200
Before sewage is dumped into the ocean it goes through a water_________ __________.
What is a water treatment facility?
200
We used this to measure the salinity of the water.
What is a hydrometer?
300
a substance possibly causing sickness or death (starts with a "t")
What is toxic?
300
The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
What is evaporation?
300
The amount of salt present in water is called..
What is salinity?
300
These are pollutants that we can readily identify where they come from
What are point-source pollutants?
300
The bottom of the ocean from which we gathered sludge is called the...
What is benthic?
400
The movement and increasing concentration of a substance up a food chain is know as
What is biomagnification?
400
What is the more scientific name for the water cycle?
What is the hydrologic cycle?
400
True or False: Water found in icecaps and glaciers is salt water.
What is false?
400
Automobile exhaust absorbed in the atmosphere and then falling back to Earth in the rain is considered: point-source or non-point source.
What is non-point source pollution?
400
One of the nutrients that we tested the water quality for...
What is nitrates, phosphates, or nitrites?
500
Substances essential for growth and development
What are nutrients?
500
The release of water vapor from plants and soil into the air
What is transpiration?
500
This is the name of our watershed..
What is the Lower Santa Ana Watershed?
500
Geographic features on the landscape where precipitation collects and then drains to a common body and/or sinks into the Earth to become groundwater.
What is a watershed?
500
Why did we feel the fish's teeth during the lab?
What is to help decide what type of food the fish eats?
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