Freshwater
How many river basins are in North Carolina?
17
What term is used for the breeding and harvesting of fish.
Aquaculture
pH stands for?
Potential Hydrogen
What percent of water on Earth is considered salt water?
97%
The prevention of wasteful use of a resource for future generations is called
conservation
What is the largest river basin in North Carolina?
Cape Fear
What zone/layer do most sea life live in?
Sunlight Zone
13 on the pH scale is
Basic
What branch of oceanography deals with waves, tides, and currents.
Physical
The determine the depth of the ocean through the use of sounds waves, this instrument is used
SONAR
What resource recharges an aquifer? the replenishment of groundwater
Rain
Which marine ecosystem is defined as being formed in shallow water by the dense growth of several different species known as tall seaweed stalks?
Kelp Forest
The measure of the degree to which water loses its transparency due to the presence of suspended sediment is called
Turbidity
Surface currents are created by the friction between the surface water and the ___________.
wind
What term is used as the activity or process of keeping something valued alive, intact or free of damage or decay?
Preservation
A lake is what type of ecosystem?
Lentic
Aquatic organisms classified as swimmers are called?
Nektons
Contamination that enters the environment through a specific means of transportation is considered
Point Source
What type/name of tide is moving away from the shore
Ebb
What type of moon phase causes Spring Tides?
Full
What type of soil will move the fastest through?
Include porosity and permeability
High Pososity, High Permeability
Marine organisms are classified according to two ways?
Where they live
How they move
Name 3 of 5 indicators of water quality
Temperature
Dissolved Oxygen
Nitrates
Bioindicators
pH
Name the 5 Ocean Zones
Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Indian, Arctic
The curved area that is separated from the river is called?
Oxbow Lake