Streams and Rivers
This is the scientific term for a river system
What is a lotic system
This is the scientific term for a lake system
What is a lentic system?
This is the pore space in a material
What is porosity?
This is the current epoch in which humans are the major drivers of change on the planet.
What is the Anthropocene?
These are small streams at the source of flowing water
What are headwaters
These are lands with shallow fresh water, for at least part of the year
What are marshes or swamps?
This area in an aquifer is open to the surface, where groundwater can percolate into
What is an unconfined aquifer?
This is one of the two major carbon sinks we talked about
What is the ocean? Or what are forests?
This is the formation of the oldest rivers
What is meandering?
This lake zone stretches all the way across the top of the water
What is the Limnetic zone?
This is the boundary between the saturated and unsaturated zones
What is the water table?
This is the exponential surge in human activity and environmental impact that began around 1950
What is the Great Acceleration
These are the larger clasts in a river that slide or roll along the riverbed.
What is bed load?
This is a process where dissolved oxygen is depleted, resulting in fish die-offs
What is eutrophication?
This is the area where groundwater flows back to the surface
What is a discharge area?
This is the increase in temperatures directly over cities due to low albedo and high CO2
What is the urban heat island effect?
These are small streams that run into larger streams
What are tributaries?
Durring this season, the lake bottom holds the warmest water
What is winter?
This occurs when overdrawing from wells near an ocean causes saltwater to encroach into freshwater aquifers
What is saltwater intrusion?
This is causing ocean animals' shells to dissolve
What is ocean acidification (too much CO2 in the water, or carbonic acid)?