Living/Nonliving
anything that is non-living
What is abiotic
Name an example of a watershed.
(Answers will vary.) parking lot, backyard, field, etc.
What is the Chesapeake Bay
The largest estuary in the United States
What is the Chesapeake Bay
What is the charge of a proton?
Which is abiotic? A squirrel, two raccoons, a snake, a rock, a palm tree
What is a rock
the land area that water flows across or under as it travel to a specific body of water
What is a watershed
What is our LOCAL watershed?
What is the Roanoke Watershed?
The large body of water that is often found at the end of a river system and contains brackish water
What is an estuary
What is a solute?
What is something that gets dissolved by something else?
Which of the following is an example of a biotic thing: a feather, water, a beetle, rocks, a waterfall
What is a beetle
A body of water partially surrounded by land where rivers meet the ocean
What is an estuary
The major watershed that we live in
What is the NC sounds
What kind of body of water is the Chesapeake Bay?
What is an estuary?
How many Hydrogen atoms are in the following formula? C4H12N7O3PS4
What is 12?
Name something in this room that is abiotic.
(answers will vary.)
Water that is a mixture of both salt and fresh water
What is brackish
What are Virginia's three main watersheds?
What are the NC Sounds, the Chesapeake Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico?
What does "brackish" mean?
What is a body of water containing saltwater and freshwater?
What is condensation?
What is the process of water vapor turning back into a liquid?
Plants do not breathe. So why are they considered biotic?
Plants are biotic because they grow and reproduce.
Some that can have a negative impact on a watershed
What is...answers vary...
Which ocean does the NC Sounds drain into?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Another name for an estuary
What is a sound or bay
Define "specific heat" and explain how it relates to water.
Specific heat is the amount of energy needed to heat something up. Water has a high specific heat, so it needs more heat energy to heat up.