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Random Water Factoids
100
They form the transition zone between dry land and bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, or bays.
What are wetlands?
100
Chemical waste from a factory dumped in the river.
What is point source pollution?
100
The largest watershed in Virginia.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
100
A mixture of salt water and freshwater.
What is brackish?
100
All the non-living factors in an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
200
A partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water connecting one or more rivers or streams to the ocean.
What is an estuary?
200
A measure of water clarity (how clear your water is).
What is turbidity?
200
Gulf of Mexico, North Carolina Sound, and Chesapeake Bay.
What are the 3 watersheds in Virginia?
200
It makes of 97% of all water on Earth.
What is salt water?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Harvesting too many oysters, agricultural runoff, pollution, and trash.
What are problems with the Chesapeake Bay?
300
One has trees and is permenantly filled with water. The other has grasses and usually is filled with water.
What are the differences between a swamp and a marsh?
300
Fertilizer runoff from farms next to a wetland.
What is nonpoint source pollution?
300
A stream, creek, or river that drains into a larger stream, river, or lake.
What is a tributary?
300
Has a pH of 7.
What is pure water?
300
Materials from the environment used by living things.
What are natural resources?
400
This forested wetland is permenantly filled water.
What is a swamp?
400
Having a pH of MORE than 7.
What is basic? (Will also accept "What is alkaline?")
400
The land that water flows across or through on its way to a stream, lake, wetland, or other body of water.
What is a watershed?
400
They make up 2/3 of all the freshwater on Earth.
What are ice sheets and iceburgs?
400
This is made up of the biotic (living) community and the abiotic (nonliving) factors that affect it.
What is an ecosystem?
500
Regulating runoff, reducing erosion, maintaining water quality, filtering sediment, and providing a habitat for wildllife.
What are important functions of welands?
500
An overgrowth of algae, often from excess nutrients in fertilizer runoff.
What in an algal bloom?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!
The watershed in which you live.
What is North Carolina Sound watershed?
500
The amount of salt in the water.
What is salinity?
500
A compound made up of one molecule of oxygen and two molecules of hydrogen.
What is water?