Water Quality
what term is used to define disolved salt in the water.
salinity
What is the numeral difference between meters and centimeters
10^2 = 100
What is it called when a plant creates food
Photosysnthis
Condensation
The process of a liquid changing into a gas
Keystone species
an organism that has a large effect on its ecosystem
What meserment is used to define how acidic a substance is.
Ph
What is the Numeral difference between Meters and millimeters
10^3 = 1,000
The scientific study of relationships between living organisms.
Ecology
Cellular respiration
The process cells use to convert nutrients(glucose) into ATP.
What is the least populated level in a healthy trophic pyramid
What limits the algae and plant growth in water.
phosphorus
10^5 = 100,000
What does gymosperm mean
When the plant has its seeds on the outside
Turbidity
The cloudiness of a liquid
How much energy does a secondary consumer get from a primary producer
1%
What happens to dissolved oxygen water temperature rises.
Dissolved oxygen decreases
What is the numberal difference between Gigaliters and centiliters.
10^8 = 100,000,000
What is the equation for photosysthenis
Sunlight
6co^2 + 6H^2O ---> C^6 H^12 O^6 + 6O^2
chlorophill
Infiltration
The process of water travling down in the water cycle.
How would an increase of primary consumers affect tertiary population.
Increases
How can runoff from fertilizer effect a body of water.
It can increase nitrogen and phosphorus
what is the difference between micrometers and Kilometers
10^9 = 1,000,000,000
The form of nitrogen that producers/plants can absorb and use directly from the soil is
Nitrates.
Eutrophication
When a body of water becomes overly enriched with nutrients
f consumers population halfed, what impact would the secondary consumers face
Rapid population decrease