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The term that refers to the dumping of everyday household trash into the oceans.
What is the trash dumping?
The term that refers to the solid waste of raw sewage that is dumped into oceans.
What is sludge?
The term for the accidental release of oil into waterways.
What is oil spill?
The most common type of ocean pollution.
What is nonpoint- source pollution?
The Act that put the Environmental Protection Agency in charge of issuing fines for any dumping in the ocean.
What is the Clean Water Act?
The resources that are replenishable like fish, plants and tidal energy.
What are renewable resources?
The resources that when depleted will not be replenished like oil, natural gas or minerals.
What are non- renewable resources?
A renewable resource that is the energy generate from the movement of tides and is an excellent source of power.
What is tidal energy or wave energy?
Name three nonliving resources from the ocean.
What is oil, natural gas, minerals and drinkable water?
Two resources that are harvested from the oceans.
What are food (plants –kelp; animals-fish, shrimp, etc?
The term that refers to a type of algae that is harvested from the ocean and used in many products including ice cream.
What is kelp or seaweed?
The term that refers to raising fish or other sea life in enclosed areas or ponds.
What is fish farming or aquaculture?
The term that refers to the process of removing salt from sea water.
What is desalination?
Oil and gas from cars, pesticides, and herbicides are 3 examples of this?
What is non- point source pollution?
Oil from an oil tanker, chemicals from a factory or waste water from a treatment plant are examples of this.
What is point- source pollution?
The area along a river that floods during heavy rains and is left with deposition of sediments which enriches the soil.
What is flood plain?
The area of land that drains water to a common waterway such as a stream, lake, estuary, wetland or ocean.
What is a watershed or drainage basin?
The term that refers to the place where a river begins.
What is river source?
The ecosystem that is based on salty water.
What is Marine?
The place where a river meets the sea that contains a mixture of fresh and salt water.
What is an estuary?
Name several examples of freshwater biomes.
What are ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, and wetlands?
The term that refers to the smaller rivers, creeks and streams that deliver water to the main river.
What are tributaries?
The term that refers to the deep water zone of a pond or lake.
What is the profundal zone?
The term that refers to the shallow water at the shoreline of a pond or lake that the sun shines all the way through to the bottom.
What is the littoral zone?
The groups that are harmed when pollution enters bodies of water.
What are humans, plants and animals?
The term for water that is a mixture of salt and fresh water.
What is brackish?
The landforms near the mouth of a river that are formed from the deposition of sediment.
What is delta?
The name of the environment that makes up the ocean floor.
What is benthic?
The pelagic zone that is beyond the sublittoral zone and above the abyssal zone.
What is the oceanic zone?
The ocean water zone where you would most likely find dolphins.
What is the neritic zone?
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The word that refers to a geographic area that is characterized by the flora, fauna and climate.
What is biome?