History
These two Wisconsin researchers started this school of limnology.
What is the Wisconsin School?
This is the percentage of freshwater on planet Earth.
What is 2.5%?
Most North American lakes were formed by this geological process.
What is receeding glaciers?
Also known as catchment basins, this area separates flowing water into rivers, lakes, and seas.
What are watersheds?
This is the most influential chemical parameter for assessing the biological status of a lake.
What is oxygen?
This researcher believed that we could have hypothesis-driven limnology, so he started this school of limnology.
What is the Hutchinson School?
This is the largest freshwater lake on Earth.
What is Lake Baikal?
Most lakes were formed during the Pleistocene Epoch, and are about this age (in years).
What is <15,000 years old?
Based on water's polarity, this describes physical surfaces that repel water aggressively.
What is Hydrophobic?
This is the greatest factor influencing the solubility of oxygen in water.
What is temperature?
These researchers discovered acid rain.
Who are Bormann and Likens?
Please name the five North American Great Lakes.
What are Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Superior, and Michigan?
These are depressions in a landscape formed when a buried ice block melts.
What are kettle lakes?
Is water densest at this temperature in degrees Celsius?
What is 3.98?
In lake whiting, bicarbonate reacts with calcium to create this buffer.
What is calcium carbonate?
This Swiss scientist discovered density currents and seiches in lakes.
Who is Alphonse Forel?
This aquatic system can be lentic, lotic, fresh, or saline.
What are wetlands?
These lakes are formed by the erosion of rocky limestone substrates.
What are solution basins?
This is the surface area of a lake where wind can blow, uninterrupted, in a single direction.
What is fetch?
In a eutrophic lake, this is where oxygen becomes highly saturated at the top of the metalimnion.
What is the metalimnetic maximum?
This scientific relative of Dr. Hunt studied zooplankton and prey selection from fish.
Who is Stanley Dodson?
This type of water body often has a lacustrine and riverine zone.
What are reservoirs?
A river can become a lake when this biological organism decides to nest.
What are beavers?
A fish with a fusiform (torpedo-like) body plan would have this type of Reynolds number in flowing water.
What is a low Reynolds number?
This is the mathematical expression for pH.
What is pH = -log[H+]