Water Properties
The attraction of one water molecule to another.
What is Cohesion?
Fish are able to communicate using sounds...true/false
True
Autotrophic microscopic organisms that rely on the current to travel.
What is phytoplankton?
The zone in a lake or pond where lily pads are found
What is the littoral zone?
The area that is impacted in a lake when polluted water from drilling is returned to the groundwater
What is the benthic zone?
The ability of water to move up a straw against gravity
What is Capillary Action?
The adaptation that allows fish to maintain neutral buoyancy
What is the swim bladder?
The difference between food webs and food chains.
What is food webs are made up of multiple food chains?
Macroinvertebrates such as snail, worms and clams are found in this region
What is the benthic zone?
One way water can be treated in an emergency when no filtration system is present
What is boiling?
The property of water that allows insects to walk on water.
What is Surface Tension?
The bony feature that lies above on top of the gills of a fish.
What is the operculum?
Plankton that cause the Red Tide
What are diatoms?
The aquatic system that is defined by moving water
What is a lotic system?
Pollution from and oil spill coming from an oil rig
Water that is clear and transparent
What is low turbidity?
The tail of a fish (specific fin name)
What is the caudal fin?
____% of energy is passed on to each trophic level in an energy pyramid
What is 10%?
The term for a body of water with excessive amounts of nutrients
What is a eutrophic pond/lake?
Type of pollution that occurs when there's an excess amount of nitrogen in water causing algal blooms
What is nutrient pollution?
The two properties that explain why lakes freeze from the top down.
What is density and and specific heat capacity?
The sense organ that allows fish to school with other fish and sense pressure changes.
What is the lateral line?
Plankton that only remain plankton for a portion of their lives.
What is meroplankton?
The reason O2 concentration decreases at night
What is because photosynthesis occurs when there is sunlight and when the sun goes down photosynthesis decreases, therefore O2 production decreases
The term used to describe the clumping together of particles during the water treatment process
What is flocculation?