Water Supply
Lack of vegetation or fast water causes this
What is Erosion
Wearing clothing is an __________ (direct/indirect) use of water.
What is indirect?
Land feature created when a glacier moves foward and melts back to reveal a pile of rocks at the end of the glacier
What is a moraine
Type of pollution that harms birds, shellfish, and otters
What is an oil spill
Caused by Earth's plates moving apart from each other under the ocean
What are the ocean ridges?
What is reverse osmosis?
Invertebrates such as insects, crustaceans whose numbers can show the health of the ecosystem.
What is a bioindicator?
Water forms that cause erosion, weathering and deposition
What are waves, tides and glaciers?
Strong powerful waves
Water is vapourized quickly then condensed into pure water.
What is distillation?
Power plant discharge warm water into rivers or lakes
What is thermal pollution?
How pure the water is
What is water quality?
Caused by the gravitational pull of the moon
What are tides?
An oil spill kills fish and other organisms. Rabbit populations decrease in winter.
What is a short term population change and a seasonal population change
Causes algae blooms
What are fertilizers from farmer’s fields leach into surrounding bodies of water
Five of the main environmental factors that lead to the development of adaptations of aquatic organisms are
Salinity, Oxygen levels, Pressure, Movement and light.
The majority of fresh water
What is frozen water?
A watershed is all of the water from an area of land that drains into one main river. True or false?
False. It is an area of LAND where all the water drains.
The correct order of human water use from most to least
agriculture, industry and domestic
What is the fertilizer type?
Amount of sediments carried in a river or stream
What is sediment load?