High School Water Edition Fall 2012, Version 1.0

DefinitionsStructure Name the Item All About Water Our 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 ease with 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 the waters of the earth and their relationship with the environment within each phase of the water cycle.

Definitions for 1000 What is ‘hydrology’?

Structure for 200 The three main bodies of water into 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 zones above and below the water table, respectively.

Structure for 400 What are the zone of aeration (above) and the zone of saturation (below)?

Structure for 600 These environmental areas filter nutrients, sediment and pollutants from the surface and ground water.

Structure for 600 What are ‘wetlands’?

Structure for 800 An area where fresh and salt water mix, producing variations in salinity and high biological activity.

Structure for 800 What is an ‘estuary’?

Structure for 1000 Small, isolated wetlands that retain water on a seasonal basis. They are typically a contained basin depression lacking a permanent above ground outlet.

Structure for 1000 What is a ‘vernal pool’?

Name the Item for 200

Name the Item for 200 What is a ‘dam’?

Name the Item for 400

What is a ‘hurricane’?

Name the Item for 600

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

Name the Item for 800

What is ‘soil erosion’?

Name the Item for 1000

What are ‘irrigation systems’ or ‘sprinklers’?

All About Water for 200 This substance is unique in that it is the only natural substance found 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 topography that forms in areas underlain by carbonate rocks, including limestone and dolomite.

All About Water for 400 What is ‘karst’?

All About Water for 600 Three human activities that affect water quality within a watershed system 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, the ones 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, or 52 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 Ocean 2. The Atlantic Ocean 3. The Indian Ocean?

Our Oceans for 600 With most of its surface covered by a large ice sheet, if all of the ice were to melt on this island, sea levels would rise by around 7 meters (over 23 feet)!

Our Oceans for 600 What is Greenland?

Our Oceans for 800 Thermohaline circulation, a process driven by density differences in water due to temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline) in different parts of 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 and one of the most important on Earth, in part because it contains these organisms which take in large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and are the largest producer of oxygen.

Our Oceans for 1000 What is marine algae?

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