An area of land that drains into a specific body of water is called this.
What is a watershed?
100
This systematic shift in atmospheric pressure, sea surface temperatures, and ocean circulation in the tropical Pacific influences climate.
What is ENSO, El Nino Southern Oscilliation, El Nino/El Nina?
100
Name one benefit and one cost of dam construction.
What are water storage, flood prevention, provide drinking water, irrigation, electricity generation. Costs- habitat loss, sediment settling, fishery decline, no topsoil building from flooding.
100
What What type of aquatic ecosystems cleans pollutants from water?
What are wetlands?
100
Some suggest that we could solve all our water supply problems by removing what from oceans waters?
What is salt?
200
The water table is the boundary between what two zones in the soil?
What are the zone of aeration & saturation?
200
Name 3 unique marine ecosystems?
What are estuaries, salt marshes, mangrove forests, intertidal zones, kelp forests, coral reefs, benthic, pelagic?
200
When aquifers are drained, the land above them sometimes collapses, causing various types of damage and injury. What are these areas of collapse called?
What are sinkholes?
200
Natural materials like this can become water pollutants when they are allowed to build up in waterways instead of being moved downstream.
What are sediments?
200
What drives ocean surface currents?
What is wind?
300
Specific spots in the ecosystem, such as glaciers, clouds, etc., where water may exist as part of the water cycle are called what?
What are reservoirs?
300
Vertical currents cause these vertical movements of water which mix water of different temperatures, as well as nutrient and dissolved gas levels. (2 answers)
What are upwelling & downwelling?
300
Name the three major categories of water use by humans.
What are agricultural, household, and industrial.
300
What are two categories of water pollution based on the location from which the pollutants come?
What are point and non point?
300
What term is used to describe marine species that are unintentionally caught when fishing?
What is bycatch?
400
In freshwater ecosystems such as lakes and ponds, different zones are named based on differences in what?
What is depth?
400
Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can affect global climate change, but it can also cause what in the oceans, because oceans are a carbon dioxide sink?
What is acidification?
400
Human conflict over water results mainly from this distribution of water on the planet.
What is uneven?
400
What human activities cause thermal pollution?
What are industrial cooling & release, vegetation removal, dam water releases?
400
Name one sustainable fishing method and one unsustainable fishing method.