Ocean Zones
Name of the 1st horizonal zone of the ocean between High tide and Low tide.
What is the Intertidal Zone?
Atlantic, ________, Indian, Artic, and Southern Ocean are all 5 of Earths' Oceans
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Saltwater meets Freshwater
What is Brackish water?
What is Runoff and 2 ways to prevent/diminish the effects?
Any surface water that leads into a larger body of water. 1) Use less Fertilizers 2) Protective Wetlands and Buffer zones
3 steps of water cycle are ...
1) Evaporation 2) Condensation 3) Precipitation
Largest and nutrient poor zone of the Ocean. Also goes by Pelagic Zone.
What is the Open Ocean?
Oceans have 2 high and 2 low tides each day. These tides are caused by...
What is the Moon's gravity?
Wetlands can take in fast moving contaminated water and turn it into ...
What is Slow and Clean/Filtered?
Bedrock = Top steep mountain (large grain)
Transfer = Middle (mostly large grain some medium)
Alluvial = Bottom flat (small grain)
Boiling and Filtering
What is 2 ways we "Treat" water?
Horizonal Zone from the low tide until the end of the continental shelf
What is the Neritic Zone?
This temperature and salinity of water tends to sink to the bottom into the Abyssal Zone
What is Cold and Salty?
Filtering out pollutants, diminishing damage from storm surges, and acting as a nursery for baby fish are all done by this Biome (give an example)
What is a Wetland? (Ex. Mangrove, Salt Marsh, and Bogs)
Explain what is Meandering of a River and where Erosion and Deposition occur
Nice!
THIS is the name for water after it is used up and becomes dirty. In a water efficient city, this water is sent HERE after it is used up
What is Wastewater and Wastewater Treatment Center?
Phytoplankton are tiny photosynthetic organisms that live in THIS zone
This Weather event is where low trade winds allow for warm water to build up at the surface of the Pacific Ocean that can lead to ... for us in United States but ... for Asian countries
What is El Nino ... more rain ... droughts
Estuaries can often times be damaged as it is a hot spot for THIS process where CO2 is absorbed and can change the _____
What is Ocean Acidification? pH
Name 5 indicators of a Healthy Lake
Temperature, pH, Turbidity, Dissolved O2, and Biodiversity
Humans use Lakes and Rivers for ... (List as many as you can)
Drinking Water, Recreation, Cooling, Hunting/Fishing, Flood storage, Hydroelectric Power
Very little light, but the majority of the Ocean's water is found in THIS zone
What is the Aphotic Zone?
Describe the Global Conveyor Belt and Thermohaline Cycle.
Did you get it right?
The Chesapeake Estuary is the Largest in United States and connects to many rivers that can change direction when the ... (or little channels of the main river) become larger and larger forming an ... leading to the old main river to be abandoned
What is a Crevasse Splay and an Avulsion?
Describe Eutrophication (start with a Farmer)
Sounds alright to me
Describe the difference between a Negative and a Positive Feedback Loop
Negative = brings back to start (shiver/sweat)
Positive = moves in "one direction" (eutrophication/ child birth)