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High School Water Edition Fall 2012, Version 1.0

Part of The Nature Generation's. Education on Energy and the Environment Kit. Made possible by a generous grant from the Luck Stone Foundation. High School Water Edition Fall 2012, Version 1.0. Definitions. Structure. Name the Item. All About Water. Our Oceans. 200. 200. 200. 200.

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High School Water Edition Fall 2012, Version 1.0

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  1. Part of The Nature Generation's Education on Energy and the Environment Kit Made possible by a generous grant from the Luck Stone Foundation High School Water EditionFall 2012, Version 1.0

  2. Definitions Structure Name theItem All AboutWater Our Oceans 200 200 200 200 200 400 400 400 400 400 600 600 600 600 600 800 800 800 800 800 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

  3. Definitions for 200 What you call an area of land that drains water, sediment and dissolved materials to a common receiving body or outlet.

  4. Definitions for 200 What is a ‘watershed’?

  5. Definitionsfor 400 Saturated land, like a marsh, where water is the determining factor of flora and fauna communities.

  6. Definitions for 400 What is a ‘wetland’?

  7. Definitions for 600 The measure of the easewith which a liquid (or gas)can flow through soil.

  8. Definitions for 600 What is ‘permeability’?

  9. Definitions for 800 A process whereby water bodies receive excess nutrients that stimulate excessive plant growth.

  10. Definitions for 800 What is ‘eutrophication’(or an ‘algal bloom’)?

  11. Definitions for 1000 The study of water or the science that encompasses the occurrence, distribution, movement, and properties of thewaters of the earth and their relationship with the environment withineach phase of the water cycle.

  12. Definitions for 1000 What is ‘hydrology’?

  13. Structure for 200 The three main bodies of waterinto which Virginia’s nine majorwatersheds drain.

  14. Structure for 200 What are the Chesapeake Bay, the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina, and the Mississippi River.

  15. Structure for 400 The name of the zonesabove and below the water table, respectively.

  16. Structurefor 400 What are the zoneof aeration (above) andthe zone of saturation (below)?

  17. Structure for 600 These environmental areas filter nutrients, sediment andpollutants from the surfaceand ground water.

  18. Structure for 600 What are ‘wetlands’?

  19. Structure for 800 An area where fresh and saltwater mix, producing variationsin salinity and highbiological activity.

  20. Structure for 800 What is an ‘estuary’?

  21. Structure for 1000 Small, isolated wetlands that retain water on a seasonal basis. Theyare typically a contained basin depression lacking apermanent above ground outlet.

  22. Structure for 1000 What is a ‘vernal pool’?

  23. Name the Item for 200

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

  25. Name the Item for 400

  26. Name the Item for 400 What is a ‘hurricane’?

  27. Name the Item for 600

  28. Name the Item for 600 What is the ‘Hydrologic Cycle’or the ‘Water Cycle’?

  29. Name the Item for 800

  30. Name the Item for 800 What is ‘soil erosion’?

  31. Name the Item for 1000

  32. Name the Item for 1000 What are ‘irrigation systems’ or ‘sprinklers’?

  33. All About Water for 200 This substance is unique in thatit is the only natural substancefound on Earth that exists in allthree states – solid, liquid and gas.

  34. All About Water for 200 What is ‘water’?

  35. All About Water for 400 The name for the topographythat forms in areas underlain by carbonate rocks, includinglimestone and dolomite.

  36. All About Water for 400 What is ‘karst’?

  37. All About Water for 600 Three human activities that affectwater quality within a watershedsystem and ultimately the ocean.

  38. All About Water for 600 What are waste disposal,construction and agriculture?

  39. All About Water for 800 Of the following fish species, theones that Americans consumemore from aquaculture (fish farming)than from wild fish catches – salmon, catfish, tilapia, or trout.

  40. All About Water for 800 What are all of the above? We consume more farmed salmon, catfish, tilapia and troutthan wild salmon, catfish, tilapia and trout, respectively.

  41. 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.

  42. All About Water for 1000 What is ‘sedimentation’?

  43. Our Oceans for 200 Of 97 percent, 76 percent, or52 percent, the percentage of the world’s water in the ocean.

  44. Our Oceans for 200 What is 97 percent?

  45. Our Oceans for 400 The three largest oceans in the world from largest to smallest by size.

  46. Our Oceans for 400 What are: 1. The Pacific Ocean 2. The Atlantic Ocean 3. The Indian Ocean?

  47. Our Oceans for 600 With most of its surface coveredby a large ice sheet, if all of theice were to melt on this island,sea levels would rise byaround 7 meters (over 23 feet)!

  48. Our Oceans for 600 What is Greenland?

  49. Our Oceans for 800 Thermohaline circulation, a processdriven by density differences in waterdue to temperature (thermo) andsalinity (haline) in different partsof the ocean is one of the factorsthat create these.

  50. Our Oceans for 800 What are ‘currents’?

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