Water Quality
Unit of measurement, stands for parts per million.
What is PPM?
The process by which liquid turns into vapor.
What is Evaporation?
The process by which carbon (atoms) move continuously between the atmosphere, oceans, land, rocks, and living organisms.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
The branch of biology that studies how organisms interact with their environment and other organisms.
What is Ecology?
The biological process which describes how living things develop and change over long periods of time. It is not random, it is a change based on factors within the environment.
What is Evolution?
The amount of oxygen that is suspended in water.
What is Dissolved Oxygen?
The process by which water vapor turns into water droplets or ice crystals which form clouds.
What is Condensation?
Non-renewable energy sources such as coal, oil, or natural gas, which formed from the remains of organisms under intense heat and pressure for millions of years.
What are Fossil Fuels?
The total quantity or weight of organisms/organic material in a given area or volume.
What is Biomass?
An organism's ability to survive and produce offspring.
What is Fitness?
The process by which two or more samples are unintentionally mixed or come into contact with one other and affect the quality of each sample.
What is Cross Contamination?
The process by which plants absorb water through their roots and then release it into the atmosphere.
What is Transpiration?
The global system that integrates all living organisms and their relation, encompassing all parts of Earth where life exists.
What is The Biosphere?
What is a Heterotroph?
An individual organism's visible traits, such as height or eye color.
What is a Phenotype?
Material of any size that will not remain suspended in still water.
What are Settleable Solids?
The downward movement of water through the soil layers to ground water after the process of Infiltration.
What is Percolation?
The solid part of earth, including all soil, rocks, landforms, and the planet's interior layers such as the crust and the mantle.
What is The Geosphere?
Organisms that produce their own food.
What is an Autotroph?
Any trait that can be inherited and helps an organism survive and reproduce in their environment.
What is an Adaptation?
The quality of being cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter.
What is Turbidity?
The pathways by which essential elements such as carbon and nitrogen move between living organisms, the Earth, and chemical transformations, and recycling nutrients through various ecosystems in order to ensure their continuous availability for life.
What are Biogeochemical Cycles?
The rigid outer part of Earth, which consists of the crust and the upper mantle.
What is The Lithosphere?
An organism that is usually a carnivore or omnivore, and feeds on secondary consumers(carnivores that eat omnivores). They are often the top predator and they are at the fourth/top level of the trophic pyramid.
What is a Tertiary Consumer?
The process where organisms with traits that are better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing those traits to their offspring and allowing populations of organisms to adapt and change.
What is Natural Selection?