Biodiversity
The total number of species in an area
What is species richness?
Benefits provided to humans by natural environments
What are ecosystem services?
Underground layer of water-bearing material, including sand, gravel and larger rock
What is an aquifer?
A major contaminant in motes of ancient castles
What is raw sewage or wastewater?
a "law" that plant growth is limited by the resource “presented to it in minimum quantities” relative to demand
What is Liebig's Law of the Minimum
The group of freshwater organisms with the largest number of species
What are insects?
Area of Wisconsin that was never glaciated and has excellent trout streams
What is the Driftless Area?
What is the water table?
Water that enters drains in a city after a rain event
What is stormflow?
The domain of life that contains fish
What is Eurkaryota?
A lentic water body that only receives water inputs from precipitation, limited runoff and groundwater
What is a seepage lake?
What is nitrate?
What is a primary clarifier?
A trophic state characterized by very low concentrations of TP and TN
What is oligotrophic?
A measure that considers the total number of species and their relative proportions
What is species diversity?
An example of a fish species that prefers cold water and may be found in the deeper parts of a lake
What is a rainbow trout?
A process used in drinking water treatment that results in particles settling to the bottom of a container
What is flocculation?
The organisms that break down organic matter and consume nutrients in a WWTP
What are bacteria and other microorganisms?
The Redfield Ratio of essential elements
What is 106 C : 16 N : 1 P
A global on-line data base that includes species that are vulnerable and endangered
What is the Red List?
An area of Wisconsin that contains over 7500 lakes
What is the Northern Highlands Lake District?
The contaminant that was at the heart of the Flint, MI drinking water crisis
What is lead?
A process that kills or deactivates bacteria and viruses before water is discharged from a WWTP
What is disinfection? (and other more specific acceptable answers)
If there are 4 trophic levels in a lake, the impact on phytoplankton of large piscivore addition
What is reduced abundance?