Nouns
A plant adapted to grow in water.
What is a hydrophyte?
To supply cropland, parks, lawns, etc., with water through the use of diversions, ditches, and pipes.
Description of plants and soils existing in flooded, saturated, or ponded areas.
What is "hydric"?
Process where water circulates through the ecosystem.
What is the hydrological cycle?
The alkali (base) concentration or quantity.
What is alkalinity?
Electric energy produced by falling or flowing water.
What is hydropower?
The downward movement of water in soil; leaching.
What is percolation?
Of or on a shore.
What is "littoral"?
A system of sense organs in fish, pores or canals along a line on each side of the body.
What is the lateral line system?
The branch of zoology that deals with fish (their classification, structure, habits, and life history).
What is ichthyology?
A large, floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or polar ice cap.
What is an iceberg?
What is reintroduction of species?
Curving; often used to describe rivers and streams in lowlands.
What is "meandering"?
Sediment deposited in oceans.
What are marine deposits?
A figure representing acidity and alkalinity (hydrogen-ion activity) on a scale of 0 to 14.
What is pH?
A man-made body of water.
What is an impoundment?
To replace lost or damaged parts with new tissue.
What is "to regenerate"?
Managing the same lands and waters for a variety of purposes.
What is multiple-use?
Pollution that comes from a specific place such as a drain or pipes.
What is point-source pollution?
The movement of fish to an area for the purpose of spawning.
What is a spawning run?
A type of bottom under a body of water; a mixture of clay and carbonate of lime.
What is "marl"?
To release eggs into water (by female fish) for fertilization by male fish.
What is "spawn"?
Describes bodies of water characterized by low relative levels of nutrients.
What is oligotrophic?
Water that runs of cropland during irrigation.
What is waste water?
Fishing for enjoyment or recreation.
What is sport fishing?