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Water cycle
Properties of water
Water Quality I
Water Quality II
Mixed information
100
Water that runs over the land to waterways, being neither absorbed or filtered into the Earth.
What is run off
100

What property of water makes water suitable for being an effective solvent(such as a super solvent)

What is polarity

100
Chronic source of stress on a fish in an aquatic environment
What is chlorine
100
What does EPA stand for? They are the federal agency in charge of testing our water.
What is the Environmental Protectional Agency.
100
Name of bacteria that oxidizes ammonia into nitrite
What is Nitrosomas
200
Heat from the sun causes surface water to change into water vapor
What is evaporation
200
Why does water resist temperature changes
What is high specific heat
200
A toxicity that causes harm over a prolonged and sustained exposure.
What is chronic toxicity.
200
What is meant by the term that there is hard water?
What is lots of calcium and magnesium
200
Ice floats on water because it does what when freezes
What is expands
300
An area of the land that is drained by a common system of streams
What is a water shed
300
The substance that is being dissolved in a solution
What is solute
300
What is the formula for Nitrate
What is NO3
300
What is the pH of rainwater?
What is 6.5
300
What are some ways that you could monitor the biological health of a stream
What is aquatic plants, algae, macro invertebrates, and fish populations
400
The opposite of evaporation; it occurs when air cools and the vapor collects into liquid form(like what happens in clouds)
What is condensation
400

What are three properties of water that can be seen when looking at a water bubble on a leaf after a rainstorm

What is cohesion, adhesion, and surface tension

400
What are two ways that dissolved oxygen is added to water
What is contact with air and photosynthesis
400
Give a way that one can measure turbidity of an aquatic environment
What is turbidity tube/secchi disk
400
The main source of chlorine in our tap water and freshwater is:
What is wastewater and industry
500
The process of transferring water from the roots put to the leaves of the plant to facilitate nutrient transfer. The water is evaporated through the stomata of the leaves
What is transpiration
500
Ice is seen to float on the surface of a lake in the winter, how is this beneficial to the lake
What is prevents a lake from freezing solid.
500
What are some ways that man causes thermal pollution
What is upstream dams, removing shade trees along the river bank, heated discharges from industries or power plants, or inflow of storm water runoff from urban streets.
500
Most common aquatic pollutant; it is extremely toxic to aquatic life and is an oxygen demanding substance
What is ammonia
500
A sample of water from a river has a greater density than a sample of distilled water. What is the explanation for these differences in density?
What is river water contains dissolved minerals and distilled water does not.