Chapter 12.1
Chapter 12.2
Chapter 12.3
Do u know your vocab?
Random Questions
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plants that produce their nutrients through photosynthesis
What is phytoplankton?
100
What subzones does the pelagic zone include?
sunlight zone, twilight zone, midnight zone
100
What are point sources of pollution?
sources that pollute the water
100
Define zooplankton?
tiny animals and animal-like living things that eats phytoplankton for food
100
List two ways humans can affect water quality
Creating Wastes, oil spill, dumping garbage from a boat or dock.....
200
An area of moderately salty water where a river flows into an ocean
what is estuary?
200
Why do most animals live near the surface of the ocean?
Because food is plentiful and sunlight warms the water.
200
What is considered a renewable resource?
Water
200
define pesticide
poison
200
Define pH
pH is a measure of how acidic or basic a substance is
300
Name 6 types of freshwater environment
Lakes, Ponds, Rivers, Steams, Wetlands, Estuary
300
The ability of certain marine fish and invertebrates
bioluminescence
300
What effect does non-point pollution have on ground water?
chemicals in the ground water can harm or kill people and other living things that drink the polluted water
300
What is the difference and similarity of rivers and streams?
different: they are different in size, temperature, speed, and how clear the water is similar: They are fast-moving waterways
300
What are lakes and ponds like?
They are all large holes in the ground that hold water, lakes are larger than ponds, in a pond, sunlight can reach all the way to the bottom. In a lake, sunlight does not reach the bottom, except near the shoreline.
400
Name several factors determine the forms of life that live in freshwater environments (Name 5 of them)
-How far down into the water sunlight reaches -the amount of nutrients -The depth of the water -how fast the water moves -How much oxygen is in the water
400
What can the most abundant pelagic twilight species produce?
blue and green luminescence
400
The _________ that carries this acidic water back to Earth makes water in ponds and lakes more acidic than they normally are?
acidic precipitation
400
Define brackish
moderately salty water where a river flows into an ocean
400
List 5 organisms living in a shoreline environment (mentioned in the text book)
sea urchins, sea stars, crabs, mussels, and clams
500
What would happen if plankton were removed from lake and pond environment?
Small animals won't survive because there is no food for them, and that causes bigger animals to die by starvation.
500
What is the description of the 5 zones?
sunlight zone: sunlight penetrates this zone, allowing photosynthesis in plants twilight zone: The light reaching this zone is very dim and will not allow plants to grow midnight: no light reaches this zone abyssal zone: This zone is at the bottom of the ocean. Temperatures are freezing cold and water pressure is enormous hadal zone: This zone is found in the deepest ocean trenches
500
What is the pH scale of normal rain?
5.6
500
Define Agriculture
Pesticides, fertilizers, animal waste
500
What is the other name for midnight zone?
Bathypelagic
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