High School Water Edition Fall 2012, Version 1.0

High School Water EditionFall 2012, Version 1.0

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ItemAll About

WaterOur Oceans

Definitions for 200

What you call an area of land that drains water, sediment and dissolved materials to

a common receiving body or outlet.

Definitions for 200

What is a ‘watershed’?

Definitions for 400

Saturated land, like a marsh, where water is the determining factor of flora and fauna

communities.

Definitions for 400

What is a ‘wetland’?

Definitions for 600

The measure of the easewith which a liquid (or gas)

can flow through soil.

Definitions for 600

What is ‘permeability’?

Definitions for 800

A process whereby water bodies receive excess nutrients that stimulate

excessive plant growth.

Definitions for 800

What is ‘eutrophication’(or an ‘algal bloom’)?

Definitions for 1000

The study of water or the science that encompasses the occurrence, distribution,

movement, and properties of thewaters of the earth and their relationship

with the environment withineach phase of the water cycle.

Definitions for 1000

What is ‘hydrology’?

Structure for 200

The three main bodies of waterinto which Virginia’s nine major

watersheds drain.

Structure for 200

What are the Chesapeake Bay, the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina,

and the Mississippi River.

Structure for 400

The name of the zonesabove and below the water table,

respectively.

Structure for 400

What are the zoneof aeration (above) and

the zone of saturation (below)?

Structure for 600

These environmental areas filter nutrients, sediment and

pollutants from the surfaceand ground water.

Structure for 600

What are ‘wetlands’?

Structure for 800

An area where fresh and saltwater mix, producing variations

in salinity and highbiological activity.

Structure for 800

What is an ‘estuary’?

Structure for 1000

Small, isolated wetlands that retain water on a seasonal basis. Theyare typically a contained basin

depression lacking apermanent above ground outlet.

Structure for 1000

What is a ‘vernal pool’?

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What is a ‘dam’?

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What is a ‘hurricane’?

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What is the ‘Hydrologic Cycle’or the ‘Water Cycle’?

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What is ‘soil erosion’?

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What are ‘irrigation systems’ or ‘sprinklers’?

All About Water for 200

This substance is unique in thatit is the only natural substancefound on Earth that exists in all

three states – solid, liquid and gas.

All About Water for 200

What is ‘water’?

All About Water for 400

The name for the topographythat forms in areas underlain by

carbonate rocks, includinglimestone and dolomite.

All About Water for 400

What is ‘karst’?

All About Water for 600

Three human activities that affectwater quality within a watershedsystem and ultimately the ocean.

All About Water for 600

What are waste disposal,construction and agriculture?

All About Water for 800

Of the following fish species, theones that Americans consume

more from aquaculture (fish farming)than from wild fish catches –

salmon, catfish, tilapia, or trout.

All About Water for 800

What are all of the above? We consume more farmed salmon, catfish, tilapia and trout

than wild salmon, catfish, tilapia and trout, respectively.

All About Water for 1000

The deposition of particles from a fluid such as water. It can clog stream channels, water intakes,

and reservoirs; it destroys aquatic habitats and blocks sunlight from reaching bottom

photosynthetic organisms.

All About Water for 1000

What is ‘sedimentation’?

Our Oceans for 200

Of 97 percent, 76 percent, or52 percent, the percentage of the

world’s water in the ocean.

Our Oceans for 200

What is 97 percent?

Our Oceans for 400

The three largest oceans in the world from largest to smallest by size.

Our Oceans for 400

What are: 1. The Pacific Ocean2. The Atlantic Ocean3. The Indian Ocean?

Our Oceans for 600

With most of its surface coveredby a large ice sheet, if all of theice were to melt on this island,

sea levels would rise byaround 7 meters (over 23 feet)!

Our Oceans for 600

What is Greenland?

Our Oceans for 800

Thermohaline circulation, a processdriven by density differences in water

due to temperature (thermo) andsalinity (haline) in different partsof the ocean is one of the factors

that create these.

Our Oceans for 800

What are ‘currents’?

Our Oceans for 1000

The marine biome is the largest andone of the most important on Earth,

in part because it contains theseorganisms which take in large amountsof CO2 from the atmosphere and are

the largest producer of oxygen.

Our Oceans for 1000

What is marine algae?

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