Oceans
Water quality indicators
Marine Ecosystems
Human impact
General Hydrosphere
100
Deepest part of the ocean.
What is an Abyssal plain?
100
Measures how basic or acidic water is.
What is pH?
100
Where salt water and fresh water meet, sounds, harbors and bays.
What are Estuaries?
100
This type of pollution is where you can go right to the source.
What is point source pollution?
100
An area of land that drains into a stream, lake or other body of water.
What is a Watershed?
200
Algae is an example of a...
What is a producer?
200
An organism that is used to monitor the health of an ecosystem.
What are Bioindicators?
200
Open ocean
What is the Nertic Zone?
200
This process in water treatment removes the "big stuff"
What is filtration?
200
A rock layer that collects and stores water.
What is an Aquifer?
300
This is how deep-water bacteria make food.
What is Chemosynthesis?
300
This causes a lake to become algae-filled, waste-filled and oxygen deficient.
What is Eutrophication?
300
Organisms take heat from hydrothermal vents and make energy.
What is Chemosynthesis?
300
When air is added to the water
What is aeration?
300
All the water found on, above, and under the Earth's surface.
What is the Hydrosphere?
400
Organisms that live on the ocean floor.
What are Benthos?
400
High temperature indicates...
What is a unhealthy body of water?
400
Process where currents bring cold water nutrients to the warm rich surface.
What is Upwelling?
400
Chemicals are added to the water in this final step
What is Tertiary?
500
"V" shaped valleys in the ocean.
What are Trenches?
500
Low temperature indicates...
What is a healthy body of water?
500
Large, deep, wide "v" shaped valley under the ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
500
This type of pollution is where you cannot find the source it's coming from.
What is Non-point source pollution?
500
Water located below Earth's surface.
What is Ground water?
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