Aquatic Science
What is the number one global use of water?
Agriculture
When water changes from a solid directly to a gas.
Sublimation
What part of a plant is involved in transpiration?
The leaves
An area of land where water flows over. This water will eventually drain into a larger body of water such as a bay or ocean.
What is a watershed?
How many oceans are there?
5
An acid
When water molecules are attracted to other water molucules.
Cohesion
What do we call the sum of evaporation from the land and through the plants?
Evapotranspiration
When water is hypoxic we say that it does not have enough of this.
Oxygen
Which ocean is considered the largest?
Pacific
The cloudiness of water.
Turbidity
What determines the conductivity of a body of water?
The amount of salt.
These types of clouds are wispy and are associated with pleasant weather.
Cirrus
A body of water that is partially surrounded by water where fresh and salt water mix.
An estuary
An underwater mountain that can appear above the ocean's surface.
Water that enters into a waste water treatment plant is called this.
Influent
Why is a water molecule called polar?
It has a positive and a negative end.
If a substrate has holes in it that are interconnected, we say that it is this.
Porous
Why do we say dead zones are cyclical?
The happen only certain times of the year...especially in the summer.
A chain of underwater mountains.
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Explain the cycle of nutrients, algae blooms, eutrophication and dead zones.
Excessive nutrients entering the water make algae bloom. Once the bloom starts to die it takes oxygen out of the water. This can lead to dead zones.
The molecules of water have a strong bond when they touch each other. This strong bond allows some insects to actually walk on the surface of the water. What property of water does this show?
Surface Tension
These clouds are usually associated with strong thunderstorms.
Cumulonimbus
Name the town in New York where the Chesapeake Bay's watershed starts?
Cooperstown
The vertical movement of water where the nutrient rich water from the bottom moves to the top of the water column.
Upwelling