Aquifers
Bodies of water located below ground
What are aquifers?
Bodies of water located above ground that come up from underground through faults
What is a spring?
Rivers and streams have a natural flowing __________
What is a current?
What is a current?
DNA is _________ stranded
A surface through which water is able to flow through
What is a permeable surface?
Over ________ in Texas
What is 3000?
The largest river in Texas
What is the Rio Grande?
1st order stream is considered ___________ in size
What is small?
RNA is ________ stranded
What is single?
Example of an impermeable surface
What is clay?
Springs require a ________, also known as a crack in the Earth to come up to the surface
What is a fault?
The largest river in the United States?
What is the Mississippi River?
12th order stream is considered _________ in size
_________ is a base found only in RNA, not DNA
What is Uracil?
What is minor?
Springs are able to support __________ ecosystems because they have access to sunlight.
What is diverse?
This part of the river is deep and slow
What is a pool?
Flat land near a river/stream that floods
What is a floodplain?
All living organisms are made up of __________
What are cells?
9 _________ aquifers in Texas
What is major?
This part of a river is shallow and fast
What is a riffle?
Proteins are synthesized from mRNA through the process of ____________