Groundwater
What is an underground chamber created by weathering away rock like limestone?
A cave
Which part of the ocean is most difficult to explore because of pressure issues?
Nonpoint pollution sources cannot be traced to a specific source. What type of pollution can be traced to a specific source?
Point source pollution
This zone of a lake includes bottom dwellers that scavenge things falling down from the surface.
The deep water zone.
The land area that drains a particular set of streams and rivers is called a...
watershed.
A well tapped into a confined aquifer will create what type of pressurized spring where water moves up on its own and doesn't need to be pumped?
An artesian well
What is defined as "catching too much fish resulting in a decrease of 90% of oceanic fish in the last 100 years?"
Overfishing
Nutrient and thermal pollution can cause a drop in what essential element that organisms need to survive?
Dissolved oxygen
Organisms in this ocean zone must be adapted to varying amounts of air and water exposure and have structures to attach to rocks so they don't wash away.
The intertidal zone
What is defined as "the smaller streams and rivers that feed into the larger rivers of a watershed?"
Tributaries
A rock with no connected pore space is so water cannot move through it.
impermable
The ocean floor was first accurately mapped by...
SONAR
Algal blooms are caused by what type pollution?
Nutrient, thermal, sediment, biological, chemical
Nutrient
What is defined as "the bottom of the ocean floor where corals grow and creatures walk?"
Benthic zone
Which wetland type is known for having trees?
Swamp
What is defined as "water moving into the soil from the surface?"
Infiltration
What action of the water cycle will raise salinity of ocean water?
Condensation, freezing, melting, evaporation, transpiration, precipitation
Evaporation
What structure do we have at the end of parking lot that traps runoff from the parking lot?
The rain garden
The littoral zone is deep and receives no sunlight therefore, no what can happen there?
What abiotic factor do organisms in an estuary have to adapt to?
Varying salinity levels (fresh and salt water meet).
What would cause the water table to lower?
Too much evaporation or using too much well water.
Where in the world would ocean salinity be highest?
Around the equator where temperatures are higher and water evaporates more.
Which of the 2 pollution sources include agricultural runoff and oil runoff from parking lots?
Nonpoint source
What ocean zone is beyond the intertidal zone but before the continental slope and the open ocean.
The neritic zone
What is the largest estuary in the US and one of the most productive estuaries in the world?
The Chesapeake Bay