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The Water planet
Freshwater Resources
Ocean systems
Ocean environments
Miscellaneous
100

Dark zone with no sunlight or photosynthesis

What is aphotic zone?

100
Raising and harvesting fish in a controlled environment.
What is Aquaculture?
100

What is the amount of oxygen dissolved in water?

dissolved oxygen

100
Salt Marshes and Mangrove forests are two types of this environment.
What are Wetlands?
100

Wetlands with trees.

What are swamps?

200
Underground layer of permeable rock that contains water.
what is aquifer?
200
A long period of abnormally low rainfall.
What is a drought?
200
A mass of moving water.
What is current
200
Environment that has all of the necessary requirements for an organism to live.
What is habitat?
200
Potential source of freshwater floating in the ocean.
What is an iceberg?
300
Water vapor turning into liquid water.
What is Condensation.
300

When coral turns white, its called this.

What is coral bleaching?

300

Free swimming organisms

What is Nekton?

300

This is a limestone deposit that is built up by tiny aquatic organisms forming a diverse marine community.

What is a coral reef?

300

The majority of marine organisms are found in this area of the ocean.

What are shallow coastal regions?

400
The increase in nutrients in pond water causing algea to grow.
What is eutrophication.
400

The process of removing salt from sea water - not efficient and rarely used

What is desalination?

400

Bottom-dwelling organisms

What is Benthos?

400
Tiny organisms that live near the sunlit surface and are a main producer in the oceans food web.
What is phytoplankton?
400

Dangerous currents at the beach that can pull swimmers out to sea.

What is a rip current?

500
This closed loop system cleans all the freshwater on our planet so that we can use it over and over.
What is the water cycle.
500
The process that allows us to farm enough food for our population.
What is irrigation?
500

The salt content of water.

What is salinity?

500
Main cause of the decrease in fish populations throughout the ocean.
What is overfishing?
500

Climates are classified according to these two major factors.

What are average temperature and precipitation?