Water Quality
Basic Watershed Terms
Wetlands
The Chesapeake Bay
Environmental Concerns
Review/Mixed Bag
100
This measure of water Quality is the most important factor for the survival of aquatic life.
What is temperature?
100
This is a stream or river that flows into another waterway.
What is a tributary?
100
Type of wetland that is a grassy area covered with a shallow layer of water.
What is a marsh?
100
The definition of an estuary.
What is a protected area of land that contains both saltwater from the ocean and freshwater from rivers that flow into it?
100
This is the term for random trash on the ground such as food wrappers, plastic bottles, and cigarette butts, that ends up in our waterways.
What is litter?
100
An element, such as Mercury or neon, is a type of matter that is made up of the same type of this.
What is atom?
200
Underwater animals rely on this to "breathe" (abbreviation is "DO").
What is dissolved oxygen?
200
All the land that water flows across, through, or under on its way to a particular stream, wetland, or Bay.
What is a watershed?
200
This is a kind of wetland that is essentially a flooded forest.
What is a swamp?
200
This is how many states are a part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
What is six?
200
If there is a large chicken farm right next to a waterway, this is how the waterway is likely to get polluted.
What is animal waste will get into the waterway (bacterial pollution)?
200
This is the reason most hurricanes occur by the equator.
What is the fact that there is more solar radiation (that is, the water is warmer)?
300
This is the word for the cloudiness of water.
What is turbidity?
300
This is the term for water that can be seen on the top of the earth in lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, etc.
What is surface water?
300
A kind of wetland largely found in Florida that contains thick trees with a thick tangle of roots.
What is a mangrove swamp?
300
How does an estuary such a as the Chesapeake Bay act as "nursery" for young marine animals that will eventually spend most of their lives in much deeper water?
What is it protects them from predators?
300
Runoff from high nitrogen fertilizers from farmlands can create an algae bloom in nearby waterways. Name one of the two negative effects of an algae bloom.
What are:
Blocking underwaterplants from getting sunlight, reducing the amount of dissolved oxygen. OR
Decomposers that break up decaying algae use up all of the dissolved oxygen in the water?
300
This is the layer of the atmosphere where most weather forms.
What is the troposphere?
400
This is the measure of salts such as sodium, magnesium, and chlorine in water.
What is salinity?
400
This is the term for water that flows over the surface of land until it lands in an existing stream, river, lake, or other body of water.
What is surface runoff?
400
This is a type of wetland found in cooler, Northern states that is mossy and acidic.
What is a bog?
400
The letter of the watershed shown below that empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
What is A?
400 point bonus if you can name the bodies of water that the other two empty into.
400
This is the term for chemicals farms and gardeners spray on plants to kill bugs that might attack the things they are growing.
What are pesticides?
400
When you add thermal energy, do molecules have more or less kinetic energy?
More
500
This measures water's acidity level.
What is pH?
500
This is what you call an area of groundwater that contains a large amount of usable water.
What is an aquifer?
500
This type of wetland is found on both U.S. coasts. It has tall, strong grasses covered with a shallow layer of brackish water.
What is a salt marsh?
500
This abiotic factor is present in brackish water but not in freshwater.
What is salt?
500
This is the name for the device near homes and businesses that handle waste from toilets. If they are poorly maintained, they can leak bacterial waste into waterways.
What are septic systems?
500
These are the three types of solar radiation.
What are infrared light, visible light, and ultraviolet radiation?
600
The presence of absence of these organisms shows the health of a waterway.
What are macroinvertebrate organisms?
600
The high areas of land that separate Watersheds.
What are Ridgelines or divides?
600
This is the environmental protection that wetlands provide to the surrounding areas when there is heavy, heavy rainfall.
What is it absorbs flood waters and slows down runoff, which helps to reduce erosion and?
600
Name three biotic factors of the Chesapeake Bay.
What are blue crab, grasses, algae, fish, oysters, etc.?
600
This is the reason it is important to clean up trash and other pollutants is they are washing into a waterway.
What is "because they provide habitats for wildlife, pollution can harm the environment and public health"?
600
This is the effect that living near a body of water has on the temperatures throughout the year.
What is it won't get as hot or as cold because the water absorbs the heat in summer and slowly releases that heat in winter?