Water Cycle
Runoff
What is water that doesn't soak into the ground?
Burns gills and chokes off oxygen supply
What is ammonia?
Sulfuric and nitric
What are the acids in acid rain?
PPM
What is "parts per million"?
97%, 3%
What is the percentage of saltwater and freshwater on Earth?
Falls from the atmosphere to the earth's surface
What is precipitation?
Decay of waste, excess food, dead plants and animals
What are causes of ammonia in an aquarium?
Causes of acid rain
What are burning of fossil fuels, volcanoes, and decaying matter?
In an established aquarium, you should test for this weekly
What is ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates?
78%
What is the amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere?
Liquid water transforms to water vapor from the sun's heat
What is evaporation?
Feed fish, waste, ammonia, nitrites, nitrates
What is the order of the nitrogen cycle in an aquarium?
Depletes soil nutrients, disrupts food chain, releases chemicals into water
What are ways that acid rain affects things on land and in water?
HIGHLY toxic, damages gills, influenced by temperature and pH. Should test at 0 ppm
What is ammonia?
Excessive algae growth
What is algal bloom (also know as eutrophication)?
The downward movement of water through soil and rocks
What is percolation?
Fixation
What is atmospheric nitrogen being broken down so that it can be used by living things (plants)?
polluting waterways, damaging forests, degrading infrastructure, contaminated water (low pH)
What is "how the effects of acid rain can be spread"?
API test colors for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate
What is yellow, very light blue, and yellow (orange- low levels, red- high)?
NH3, NO2, NO3
What are ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate?
Sublimation
What is the phase change from solid to gas (skipping the liquid phase)?
Use of fertilizers, burning fossil fuels, crops, industrial pollutants
What is human activities that lead to unbalanced nitrogen levels?
Switching to renewable energy sources, implement environmental regulations, treating exhaust
What are ways to limit acid rain?
safe at low levels, can cause explosive algae growth at high levels
What are nitrates?
Lagoon
What is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a barrier?