These are the percentages for distribution of salt water to fresh water on earth.
What is:
97% salt water
3% Fresh water
100
This is the largest and most varied zone of the ocean.
What is the open ocean?
100
This is the measure of the cloudiness of water.
What is turbidity?
100
Runoff from Farms and Golf Courses is an example of this type of pollution.
What is Non-point source pollution?
200
This is when water travels up the stem of a plant. It is caused by adhesion.
What is Capillary Action?
200
This is where Salt water meets Fresh water causing the water to be "brackish".
What is an estuary?
200
This is when nutrients from the bottom of the ocean rise up to the surface of the water.
What is an upwelling?
200
This is what pH levels measure.
What is how acidic or basic the water is?
200
An Oil Spill is an example of this type of pollution.
What is point source pollution?
300
This is why ice floats: give the property and the reason.
What is Buoyancy? Ice is less dense than water.
300
This is where we get most of our drinking water in NC.
What is an aquifer?
300
This is the area with the most sunlight.
What is the continental shelf
300
This is the process that happens when there are too many nitrates in the water causing algal blooms to block out the sunlight and the life in the lake or pond dies.
What is eutrophication?
300
This is the part of the government responsible for setting standards for our water quality in America.
What is the EPA? (Environmental Protection Agency)
400
This is why the cement is always hotter than the water in the pool in the summer during the day?
What is Water has a high specific heat?
400
This is the area where water drains when it rains.
What is a watershed?
400
This zone of the ocean where we find hydrothermal vents and chemosynthesis.
What is the deep ocean?
400
This is the relationship between Dissolved Oxygen Levels and Temperature.
What is when the Temperature increases, dissolved oxygen levels decrease?
400
This will cause the nitrate and phosphate levels in the water to become too high.
What is fertilizer in runoff?
500
This property of water allows it to be cohesive and adhesive
What is Polarity?
500
These are the percentages for distribution of fresh water on Earth.
What is:
69% Frozen
30% groundwater
1% surface and the atmosphere
500
List the 3 most important abiotic factors for each ocean zone.
What is Sunlight, Temperature, and Depth
500
Name 4 qualities of Healthy Water:
What is:
Low turbidity
cool temperatures
High dissolved oxygen levels
Regular nitrate levels
Healthy bioindicators
pH level around 7
500
These are the two types of water pollution with an example of each:
What is
Point and Non-point pollution (examples will vary)