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Go With the Flow Icky Stuff Getting Warmer Quality not Quantity Hodgepodge Who eats whom?

This is the place where water is stored underground A 100

What is an aquifer? A 100

This law requires wastewater to be clean enough for fishing and/or swimming A 200

What is the Clean Water Act? A 200

This large land area absorbs water and stores all water that does not run off into the ocean A 300

What is a watershed? A 300

This helps retain water in the soil and prevents it from becoming runoff A 400

What is vegetation? A 400

This process moves water from the ground through plants, and into the atmosphere A 500

What is transpiration? A 500

This icky stuff is heat-resistant, was formerly used in vehicles, and causes lung cancer B 100

What is asbestos? B 100

This icky stuff combines with water vapor to form sulfuric acid rain B 200

What is sulfur dioxide? B 200

This icky stuff is good 15 miles above the Earth, but bad for air quality at the surface B 300

What is ozone? B 300

This icky stuff can be cleaned with stack scrubbers in factory smokestacks B 400

What are hydrocarbons? B 400

This icky stuff is produced as a gas by-product of naturally decaying organic material B 500

What is methane? B 500

C 100 This occurs when aquatic organisms experience a temperature change of more than 2-3 degrees F

What is thermal stress? C 100

This substance is thought to account for 50% of the increase in global temperatures by 2020 C 200

What is carbon dioxide? C 200

Warmer water holds _____ oxygen than cooler water. C 300

What is less? C 300

DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager

These are the two opposing explanations for the current trend in global warming C 400

Humans are accelerating the rate of warming with greenhouse gas emissions versus Earth is experiencing a period of warming as part of a natural cycle C 400

This term is used to describe the trapping of heat from the sun beneath Earth’s atmosphere C 500

What is the greenhouse effect? C 500

This colorless, odorless gas can seep into homes built over contaminated areas D 100

What is radon? D 100

Water is abundant on Earth, but most is not potable because it is this type of water D 200

What is saltwater? D 200

These pollutants decrease air quality by causing a “hole” in the ozone layer D 300

What are CFCs? D 300

Water quality decreases for aquatic organisms when this nutrient is low D 400

What is oxygen? D 400

This process, performed mostly by bacteria and fungi, reduces oxygen availability in the water D 500

What is decay of organic matter? D 500

These rays cause skin damage and cancer due to overexposure to the sun E 100

What are ultraviolet rays? E 100

These organisms are used to determine the health of the environment E 200

What are indicator species? E 200

In England in the 1800s, smoke from factories caused a decline in light-colored moths and an increase in dark moths, a process referred to by Charles Darwin as this E 300

What is natural selection? E 300

This is the pH range for a basic substance E 400

What is greater than 7? E 400

Solid particles suspended in water contribute to this, which may block sunlight and decrease photosynthesis in aquatic producers E 500

What is turbidity? E 500

This is the term for an organism’s position in the food chain F 100

What is trophic level? F 100

These organisms obtain their energy from algae or aquatic plants F 200

What are primary consumers? F 200

These organisms are herbivores F 300

What are primary consumers? F 300

This is the trophic level of a hawk that eats a snake that eats a frog that eats fish that eat algae F 400

What is quaternary (4 th level) consumer? F 400

This is the trophic level of a big fish that eats smaller fish that eat algae. F 500

What is secondary consumer? F 500

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This concept describes the accumulation of toxic materials in increasingly higher concentrations the higher an organism is in a food chain residing in polluted waters. Click on screen to continue

This concept describes the accumulation of toxic materials in increasingly higher concentrations the higher an organism is in a food chain residing in polluted waters.

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