Water chemicals + pollutants effects

Question 1

Water testing Eutrophication

INDICATOR SPECIES

Answer 1

Plants and animals that show something about the environment by their** presence, absence, or abundance.**

Ex. Frogs: Frog skin is permmeable so they absorb pollutants easliy

Question 2

Biotic Index

Answer 2

Scale of 1-10 that gives a measure of quality of an ecosystem by looking at the presence or abundance of the species living there

Invertebrates are used to know pollution levels bc they are senstive to Decreased oxygen

Question 3

Eutrophication

Step 1

Answer 3

Urband or Agriclutural land runoff that contains high nutrient levels meet a water body

Question 4

Eutrophication

Step 2

Answer 4

Excess nutrients causes plants to grow faster and algae bloom happens on surface

Question 5

Eutrophication

Step 3

Answer 5

Sunlight block
DO levels decrease
zooplankton accumulate to feast on algae

Question 6

Eutrophication

Step 4

Answer 6

Algae dies off so decomposers take over; BOD increase while DO decreases

Question 7

Eutrophication

Step 5

Answer 7

DO is so low that a dead zone is created; food chain dies and orgainsms die

Question 8

Ocean Water Accumlation

Answer 8

Litter that ends up in ocean and accumlates in ocean b/c water circulation & convection currents
Causes- decrease tourism, chocking hazzard to animals, and toxins into water

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Question 9

Ocean Warming

Answer 9

Ocean heat up leading caued by GHGs in atmosphere trapping more energy from the sun
- Stronger stormes
- Heat loss
- Coral bleaching

Heavy Metal Solubility
Mehals can dissove meaving toxic metals in ocean