GENERAL QUESTIONS
GENERAL QUESTIONS
GENERAL QUESTIONS
GENERAL QUESTIONS
GENERAL QUESTIONS
100
Organisms that feed by catching and eating prey.
What is predator?
100
When the heat of the sun changes water from a liquid to a gas.
What is Evaporation?
100
A region drained by, or one that contributes water to, a stream, lake or other body of water.
What is Watershed?
100
Any ridge between two streams along which precipitation runs off.
What is Divide.
100
The basin that Ambridge Junior High Students live in.
What is Ohio River Basin?
200
Decreases runoff and erosion.
What is Vegetation?
200
A stream gradient increases.
What is Upstream?
200
Oxygen levels decrease with high levels of this in streams and rivers.
What is Nutrients?
200
Algae that make their own food and are known as producers.
What is Autotroph?
200
Protists in streams and rivers that eat other protists.
What is Raptor.
300
This major Pennsylvania’s watershed is on the eastern side of the state.
What is the Delaware?
300
Sand and gravel are generally of this in a river.
What is Bedload?
300
A period during which agencies, suppliers, and users are asked or required to reduce water consumption by at least 15 percent.
What is Emergency.
300
Shade provided by streamside forest are called.
What is Buffers.
300
The increase of this in streams or rivers is caused by volcanic eruptions.
What is Turbidity & Temperature?
400
Does not have any other stream feeding into it.
What is First Order Stream?
400
This wetland has trees and bushes are the dominant plants.
What is Swamp?
400
Major problem of Urban wetland runoff.
What is Decreasing Salinity?
400
Changing a rivers channel can be caused by this.
What is Strong winds.
400
Most Wetlands lost in the U.S. are due to this.
What is Urbanization?
500
High concentration of calcium.
What is Hard Groundwater?
500
These drainage patterns form when rocks in the area are broken by faults.
What is Rectangular?
500
This absorbs runoff and prevents flooding.
What is Wetland?
500
This type of wetland aids in filtering pollutants from runoff.
What is Urban Wetland?
500
Can cause changes in temperature and salinity.
What is Dam?
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