Rivers and Streams
A flowing-water ecosystem.
What is a lotic ecosystem?
Excess nutrients in bodies of water.
What is eutrophication?
Cattails, grasses, and pickerelweed are this type of plants.
What are herbaceous plants?
The three subdivisions of aquatic life.
What are plankton, nekton, and benthos?
How water leaves the surface land, animals, and bodies of water.
What is evaporation?
This stream order has no tributaries.
What is first order streams?
The most common pollutant in North Carolina waters.
What is sediment?
This nutrient is essential for plant growth and all other life.
What is nitrogen?
The water penny is in this macroinvertebrate taxa group?
What is Group 1?
Bogs are this kind of system.
What ombrotrophic systems?
Streams consisting of precipitation and hillside runoff, groundwater, and water from springs.
What are upland streams?
The greatest threat to upland streams.
What is development?
Process by which water moves upward through plant tissues.
What is capillary action?
Taxa group of Drone Fly larvae.
What is Group 3?
The largest lake in North Carolina and its depth.
What is Lake Mattamuskeet? What is 2-3 feet?
The sloped bank of a stream.
What is a scarp?
Philosophical principle that contributes to pollution of the oceans.
What is "tragedy of the commons"? (or similar explanation regarding lack of ownership/responsibility)
Hydrilla is this type of water plant.
What is submersed?
The aquatic larval state of many insects.
What are benthic macroinvertebrates?
Source of the color of black water rivers.
What is tannin?
Baseflow of a stream is higher in this time of year?
What is winter?
Source of infectious agents in water resources.
What is human or animal fecal matter?
This perennial plant is an emergent aquatic that forms clumps of basal leaves on stout petioles.
What is arrow arum?
The taxa groups of macroinvertebrates are based on this quality.
What is sensitivity to water pollution? (or similar phrase)
Cold, dense layer at the base of a lake.
What is the hypolimnion?