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Food Chain
Maps
Watershed
Water Quality
Water Cycle
100
Food, water, and shelter, and space required by organisms.
What is habitat?
100
The lines on the map that show elevation.
What is contour lines?
100
The river that flows into a bigger river.
What is tributary?
100
The different ways to figure out water quality.
What is dissolved oxygen, biology, nitrogen, temperature, salinity, and pH balance?
100
The process where water droplets fall to the Earth.
What is precipitation?
200
The process where plants turn carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight into food for itself.
What is photosynthesis?
200
The type of map that shows elevation.
What is topographic map?
200
This is the part of the river that opens into a larger area of water.
What is mouth?
200
These reasons are why scientist study macro invertebrates in a stream or river.
What are water quality and food chain?
200
The process where water on the ground turns to vapors and rises.
What is evaporation?
300
These organism groups are a part of the aquatic food chain.
What are producers, herbivores, predators, and decomposers?
300
The land area that surrounds rivers and is outlined by the highest elevations.
What is watershed?
300
This zone of land is right next to the river and helps filter the water.
What is riparian zone?
300
This macro invertebrate is a sign of good water quality.
What is caddisflies, dobsonflies, mayflies, or stoneflies?
300
the process of the water vapor cooling and forming into clouds
What is condensation?
400
Small organisms without backbones that can be seen without a microscope
What is macro invertebrates?
400
Another name for zero elevation.
What is sea level?
400
The start of a river.
What are source and headwaters?
400
Things humans can do to improve water quality.
What are recycle, use less water, dispose of hazardous waste properly, don't litter, and use less chemicals?
400
The different places water is stored.
What are groundwater, clouds, ocean, streams, rivers, ice caps, glaciers, and in living organisms?
500
A series of steps showing producers and consumers.
What is food chain?
500
Storage place for water.
What is reservoir?
500
The two man-made things that affect water turbidity and the temperature.
What are thermal pollution and erosion?
500
These five things affect the overall water quality at one of the sites in the Big River Watershed. Name site you chose.
What are things that affect the dissolved oxygen level, temperature, nitrogen level, pH level, turbidity, and biology?
500
Where freshwater mixes with salt water.
What is an estuary?