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EXAM 1 Flashcards

1
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Characteristics of a lake

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size based definitions: surface area, depth or zonation

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Glacial lakes

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74% of lakes, nutrient rich. formed from ice barriers or glacial erosion. Continental glaciers moved rocks and sediment to change the landscape.

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Tectonic lakes

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~5% of lakes. Often U or V shaped basins. Deep and unproductive. have GRABENS: flat bottom valleys produced by tectonic plate activity

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4
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Volcanogenic lakes

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«1% of lakes. low nutrient concentrations and unproductive. deep usually old

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Karst Regions

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Lakes formed by soluable rocks (limestone or dolomite) that dissolves with acidic water. Small and unevenly distributed around the world

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Riverine lakes

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oxbow lakes: form when bends in a river become isolated due to errosive forces of rivers, usually shallow and oddly shaped

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Floodplain lakes

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form due to seasonal fluxes in water levels in a river basin

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8
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littoral zone

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margin of lake to depth where no plants can grow

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limnetic zone (palagic zone)

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open water, no shore visible

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10
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benthic zone

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bottom zone associated with sediments

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profundal zone

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deep region of the benthic, no light, fine sediments

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12
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limnetic zone

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photic zone

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13
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profundal zone

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aphotic zone

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14
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Epilimnion

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top layer, warmer and lighter

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15
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Metamnion

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medium temperature medium light

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hypolimnion

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dark, cold

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17
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meromictic lake

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so deep that there is no single temperature, layer at the bottom never mixes

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18
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dimictic

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2 mixing events per year

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19
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monomictic

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mixes once a year

20
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what enables mixing?

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shallow waters, large fetch, lack of ice cover, lack of sheltering topography, large meteorological events (hurricanes)

21
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catchment

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area of land that drains into an aquatic system

22
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seepage lakes

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isolated. no inlets or outlets

23
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drainage lakes

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connected, inlets and outlet streams

24
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lowland drainage lakes

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connected, have inlets and outlets

25
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drained lakes

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no inlet streams. have an outlet

26
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terminal lakes

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has an inlet with no outlet

27
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oligotrophic

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little nutrients and phytoplankton

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mesotrophic

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some algae in late summer, shallow plants, some sediment buildup

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eutrophic

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lots of nutrients and phytoplankton, lots of chlorophyll a making it green, shallow

30
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Trophic state index (TSI) based on what perameters

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water clarity, chlorphyll a, total nitrogen, total phosphorus

31
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water year

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October 1-September 30

32
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recharge lakes

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lakes that are above the water table

33
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flow-through lakes

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lakes that receive and discharge groundwater

34
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discharge lakes

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lakes that are below the water table, only groundwater is their input

35
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closed basin lakes

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endoheric, no surface flows, long residence times

36
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open basin lakes

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exorheric, surface outflows, evaporation

37
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el nino southern oscillation

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last 9 months to two years, occurs every 3-7 years

38
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Morphometry

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quantifies the size, shape, and physical dimensions of a lake

39
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What types of lakes are circular

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caldera

40
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what types of lakes are lunate

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oxbow shape formed from river bends

41
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what types of lakes are dendrictic

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most commonly formed from dammed rivers

42
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Bathymetric Map

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Shows underwater topography using contours of equal depth (isobaths)
Historically created by sounding using a weighted line lowered until it hit the bottom

43
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Modern methods for creating bathymetric map

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echo sounding GPS, side scan sonar, dropping the boat into a large body of water

44
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Shoreline development index

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a measure of how complex the shoreline of a lake is relative to expected if the lake was a perfect circle
D= 1 means the lake is a perfect circle

45
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Fetch

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Simplest measure of fetch is the longest possible distance across which wind can blow
This can be expanded to effective fetch, which adds in the relative direction of dominant winds a lake experiences
Fetch influences wave action, which
influences bottom sediment mixing in lakes, which influences the depth of the thermocline and epilimnion in lakes`

46
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Sieche

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is a standing wave and in an enclosed body of water

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