Water Cycle
Chemical & Physical
Biological
Water & Numbers
Grab Bag
100
The movement of water from Earth's surface into the air and back again is ______.
What is the water cycle?
100
This is what DO stands for in a chemical water quality test.
What is Dissolved Oxygen?
100
When testing for water quality using biological indicator species, what does it mean for a species to be tolerant or intolerant?
They either can or cannot live in polluted water.
100
What percent of the Earth's surface is water?
~70%
100
List two of the reasons that wetlands are important resources.
What is absorbs water, provides food, cleans water, cycles nutrients, beautiful, resting place for wildlife, or acts like a nursery.
200
What tends to happen to water after it evaporates?
it condenses
200
A lack of plant life on the banks of waterways can cause a lot of _______ to run into the water.
What is sediment?
200
Name a tolerant macro-invertebrate species.
midge larvae, aquatic worm, black fly larvae, leaches, or lunged snails
200
What fraction do we use to represent how much water is in our bodies?
2/3
200
People use the power of moving water to make what?
electricity
300
What is it called when water pools together after falling from the sky?
collection
300
Things like acid rain and chemical pollutants can cause a change in the water's ______.
What is pH?
300
Explain what macro-invertebrate means when you break down the word.
organisms without backbones, which are visible to the eye without the aid of a microscope
300
How long can the human body go without water?
~3 days
300
Name the #1 type of pollution in our waterways.
What is sediment?
400
What are three examples of precipitation?
rain, snow, sleet, or hail
400
This is what ppm stands for.
What is parts per million?
400
Name two intolerant macro-invertebrate species.
caddisfly, mayfly, stonefly, water snipe fly, riffle beetle, water pennies, or gilled snails
400
What percentage of the total water on Earth is groundwater that is available for us to use?
1%
400
The amount of sedimentation in water.
What is turbidity?
500
This is the part of the water cycle where we can find usable freshwater.
What is groundwater?
500
Another name for the edge of a body of water.
What is riparian zone.
500
On your Water Quality monitoring sheets, what number of macro-invertebrates did you need to surpass in order to have excellent water quality?
22
500
How many gallons a day does the average person in North America use? A. 16.8 gals B. 45.3 gals C. 75.4 gals D. 105.7 gals
D. 105.7 gals
500
Define vernal pool.
A seasonal depressional wetland that will at some point completely dry up.
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