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The breaking of habitats into smaller pieces.
Answer: What is fragmentation?
This is a place where a river meets an ocean.
Answer: What is a delta?
This type of soil is saturated with water and found in ponded areas.
Answer: What is hydric soil?
This is the area alongside flowing water such as rivers and streams.
Answer: What is a riparian zone?
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The most important factor when measuring water quality. Hint: You can tell it is the most important because it had the highest weight in the water quality calculations.
What is dissolved oxygen? Answer: What is dissolved oxygen?
The animal that caused the water at Independence Grove to be so clear.
Answer: What are zebra mussels?
Organisms that do not have a backbone and are large enough to be visible without a microscope.
What are macroinvertebrates? Answer: What are macroinvertebrates?
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Without this cycle plants would become less drought resistant, less heat tolerant and stuff.
What is the phosphorous cycle.
These types of plants and animals tell can tell you that you are in a specific type of environment. Examples in wetlands include cattails and red-winged blackbirds.
What are indicator species? Answer: What are indicator species?
You might be in a wetland if there is standing water during what part of the year?
Answer: The growing season.
This is a benefit of wetlands that is most helpful after spring thaw.
Answer: It prevents flooding.
A type of prairie that is also a wetland. It has a basic pH.
Answer: What is a fen?
In this interaction both species suffer negative consequences.
What is Competition
This is the name for liquid as it moves land to water This is the name for liquid as it moves land to water. It may carry chemicals or sediments with it.
Answer: What is run-off?
A document that describes the potential consequences of a development project.
What is an environmental impact report? Answer: What is an environmental impact report?
The movement of soil particles in one flat layer.
Answer: What is sheet erosion?
The movement of water that results in small channels in the soil.
Answer: What is rill erosion?
A type of organism that can be used to test environmental quality.
Answer: What is a bioindicator?
The largest type of soil particle.
Answer: What is sand?
A soil component that prevents water from draining.
Answer: What is clay?
These are the three parts of soil.
What are sand, silt, and clay? Answer: What are sand, silt, and clay?
You are betting on a race and notice that all of the horses start at the same place. The odds show that all horses are pretty much equally as fast. Would you bet your money on the horse on the inside track or the outside track? ...
Did you use the strategy effectively?
You are the mechanic at a garage and need to loosen a rusted bolt You are the mechanic at a garage and need to loosen a rusted bolt. You have the choice between a .5 m pipe or a .7 meter pipe. Which do you use?
The .7 meter pipe will give you more torque.
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You must PIMP an introduction based on your topic. Work With Your Group Choose a real world issue: abortion, animal rights, environmental protection, school uniforms, the hip hop debate, etc. Working with your group, imagine that you are writing a persuasive paper based on that issue. You must PIMP an introduction based on your topic. You will be graded on how well you PIMP an introduction AND how well you use a persuasive strategy. You have 10 minutes.
What are the units of acceleration?
ANSWER: m/s2