1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Water Ecology Water Usage Water Cycle Water Quality Misc.

2. Surface water that flows to streams and other water storage areas

3. What is run-off

4. Process by which material is dissolved, loosened or worn away from one part of the Earth’s surface and is deposited in other places

5. What is erosion

6. An area of land that drains water, sediment and dissolved materials to a common receiving body or outlet

7. What is a watershed

8. The aquatic zone in which water is flowing very fast, there is a lot of dissolved oxygen in the water and not as much biodiversity

9. What is the source zone

10. The aquatic zone where streams join into wider deeper rivers that meander across valleys, with high numbers of producers and widely diverse fish population

11. What is the floodplain zone

12. Percentage of Earth’s water that is contained in oceans

13. What is 97%

14. The biggest cause of infant mortality in the world

15. Contaminated water

16. Percentage of Earth’s water that is usable by humans

17. What 0.3 %

18. The two main sources of water for human use

19. What are streams and ground water

20. Most water is used by humans for these purposes

21. What is power production and irrigation

22. The process of going from liquid to gas form for water

23. What is evaporation

24. The process of going from water vapor to water droplets

25. What is condensation

26. When water droplets in the atmosphere accumulate enough mass and velocity then this happens

27. What is precipitation

28. The process of evaporating water from plant leaves is known as

29. What is transpiration

30. The process of water seeping through sand, rocks and soil is known as

31. What is infiltration

32. This test indicates the ability of water to support a healthy environment of aquatic plants and animals

33. What is dissolved oxygen

34. DOUBLE JEOPARDY Sources of inorganic nitrogen in streams and rivers include (choose 3)

35. What is industrial wastewater, septic tanks, discharges from car exhausts, feed lot discharges, animal wastes

36. pH can have significant environmental impact due to ______ effects

37. What is synnergistic

38. Water is a unique substance because (choose 3)

39. What is it is a liquid over a wide range in temps, high heat capacity, can dissolve a variety of compounds, it acts as a natural buffer, filters UV light, has high surface tension, expands when it freezes

40. Nitrites can cause a serious condition in fish called brown blood disease which causes this to happen

41. What is convert hemoglobin to methamoglobin so red blood cells can’t transport oxygen

42. Water that fills voids in soil and rock is known as

43. What is ground water

44. Porous, water-saturated layers of sand, gravel or bedrock through which groundwater flows are called.

45. What is an aquifer

46. The transition area between the area of ground that is saturated with water and the area that is not is called

47. What is the water table

48. Low per capita availability of water

49. What is water stress

50. Four main causes of water scarcity.

51. What are dry climate, drought, desiccation (drying of soil), water stress.