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High School Water EditionFall 2012, Version 1.0
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Definitions StructureName the
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’?
Name the Item for 400
Name the Item for 400
What is a ‘hurricane’?
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Name the Item for 600
What is the ‘Hydrologic Cycle’or the ‘Water Cycle’?
Name the Item for 800
Name the Item for 800
What is ‘soil erosion’?
Name the Item for 1000
Name the Item for 1000
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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