Water Quality
Science Vocab
Ecology
The Metric System
Carbon and Water Cycle
100

How has the decrease in fish because of the Klamath River basin affect the tribe that was living around it?

It cost a scarceness in food and they weren't getting enough fish to eat and to celebrate their tradition.

100
What is cross contamination?

When one substance accidentally gets transferred to another substance. 

100

What does biotic and abiotic mean?

Biotic is something that is living (ex. plants and animals) and abiotic is something that is not living (ex. water or rocks).

100
What are the abbreviations for grams, liters, and meters? And what do they measure?

Grams: g, mass

Liters: L, volume

Meters: m, length

100

How do trees help the environment?

They take CO2 and release oxygen through photosynthesis.

200

What did the animals do that caused the Klamath River basin to get more polluted?

The animals stepped on the ground next/near the river, which caused the sediment to erode the river.

200

What is environmental justice?

Actively trying to restore natures original shape. Activism for the environment.

200

What is the difference between a autotroph and a heterotroph?

Autotrophs feed themselves and make their own food, while heterotrophs find and hunt their own food.

200

Whats accuracy and precision?

Accuracy: How close something is to the target. Near true value 

Precision: Closeness to the measurement to each other.

200

Define carbon sink and source.

Carbon sinks are things that store more carbon than it emits, while carbon sources emit more carbon than it stores.

300

What is salinity?

Salinity is the concentration or measure of dissolved salts in a body of water or soil.

300

What is biomass?

The overall amount of living material at each level.

300

What is the trophic pyramid?

It shows how much energy flows through each of the feeding levels and the biomass at each level.

300

Convert 30.2 m to cm.

3020 cm

300

What is transpiration?

Transpiration is the same as evaporation, but instead it evaporates from the leaves of plants instead of bodies of water.

400

What is making the lake the Klamath River basin poison?

High levels of Phosphorates
400

What is a bar graph?

A graph that has one or two non-numerical values.

400

What is a trophic cascade?

It is an ecological process where adding or removing top predators triggers a chain reaction that ripples down through lower feeding levels in a food web.

400

How much is in Millie?

1 million

400

What are the four interconnected systems of earth?

Atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere

500

What sediment was found in the Klamath River basin that caused a lot of the erosion?

Diatracozeouse

500

What is the equation for photosynthesis?

6CO2 + 6H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2

500

What are the levels of ecological organization from smallest to largest?

1. Individual

2. Population

3. Community

4. Ecosystem

5. Biome

6. Biosphere

500

Convert 34.290 to mm.

34290000 mm

500

Define fast (biological) cycle and slow (biological) cyle.

Fast cycle is where carbon moves over days or decades and slow cycle is where carbon moves over millions of years.