Fresh Water
This term describes how much salt is dissolved in water
What is salinity?
Large moving mass of compressed ice and snow
Glacier
Concentration of a toxin is magnified as it moves up through the food chain
Biomagnification
Caused by dissolved sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere combining with water vapor in the atmosphere and returning to Earth as precipitation.
Acid Precipitation
Most of fresh water is trapped in this form.
What is Ice?
This is described as energy moving through water, usually caused by winds
What are waves?
Continental Glacier
Process of making food using energy from chemical reactions; carried out by bacteria around sea-floor vents
Chemosynthesis
This is tested with litmus paper or indicator chemicals
What is pH?
These two processes allow rivers to change their course and alter the landscape
What is erosion and deposition
This is the cause of tides on Earth
What is the moon?
A fissure, or crack, in the ice
Crevasse
True or False: Marine mammals such as whales have lungs to breathe
True
High levels of these two metals lead to hard water
What are magnesium and calcium?
This has the largest impact on the direction that a river flows
What is the continental divide?
This is why the supercontinent Pangea no longer exists
What are continental plates/plate tectonics?
A landform made of a glacial till.
What is a moraine?
Phytoplankton
This is important to measure because it effects the amount of dissolved oxygen
What is temperature?
The gradually sloping area between a seacoast and the edge of an ocean basin
Continental Shelf
Tiny lakes formed by chunks of ice left over from a glacier
The differences or variety of adaptations of living things
Diversity
Certain animal species can only survive in good water quality, and are called this.
What are biological indicators?