Watershed

Question 1

Rotarian buffer

Answer 1

Banks rivers stream waterway and plant and animal communities

Question 2

Typical riparian area buffer

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Stream banks lake borders and marshes

Question 3

Natural resource

Answer 3

Materials that are in nature

Question 4

Erosion

Answer 4

Process in which a material is one away by a stream of liquid

Question 5

Alien species

Answer 5

Plant or animal that are non-area

Question 6

Nonpoint source

Answer 6

Pollution just charged over a wide land area not from one specific location

Question 7

Eutrophication

Answer 7

The process by which a body of water but comes in Riched and dissolved nutrients to stimulate the growth of plant life resulting in depletion of dissolved oxygen one of the leading causes of poor water

Question 8

Invasive species

Answer 8

Organisms that are non-native to the ecosystem and cause harm to the ecosystem

Question 9

as a pollutant and Alan at my compound that causes abnormal he have organic growth and what our ecosystem

Answer 9

Nutrients

Question 10

Sediment

Answer 10

Is the base sand clay silt and other soil particles that settle at the bottom of a body of water sediment can come from soil erosion or from the decomposition of plants and animals

Question 11

Storm drain

Answer 11

Constructed opening in a road system through which the road surface flows into an underground sewer system

Question 12

Impervious

Answer 12

A surface composed of any material which prevents the natural infiltration of water into soil examples are concrete sidewalks and asphalt street

Question 13

Watershed

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The land that supplies water to a river system another name for a watershed inch drainage basin

Question 14

Four major rivers and Virginia are

Answer 14

James York Rappahannock Potomac

Question 15

Tributaries

Answer 15

The smaller streams and rivers that feed into a main branch

Question 16

River systems

Answer 16

A river and all its tributaries

Question 17

Name six states that contain the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Answer 17

Virginia Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania West Virginia New York

Question 18

Wetland

Answer 18

An area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year

Question 19

Wetlands

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Sheltered areas of water
Have a rich supply of nutrients
Provide habitat for many living things
Help control floods that absorbing run off from heavy rain

Question 20

Estuary

Answer 20

Coastal and let’s or days where water from rivers mix with salty ocean water
–Chesapeake bay

Question 21

Brackish

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Water is part salt and part fresh

Question 22

Nonpoint source pollution

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Rainfall snow melt or storm runs Overland or through the ground picks up pollutants and deposit them into rivers and lakes

Question 23

The three most common nonpoint source pollution

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Fertilizer
cement construction
pet waste

Question 24

Dissolved oxygen–D O

Answer 24

How many molecules of oxygen are in the water

Measured in parts per million-ppm

Question 25

Water temperature

Answer 25

Affects the ability of the water to hold oxygen

Question 26

PH

Answer 26

Measures how acidic or basic a liquid is

Measures on a scale of 14
0 Is very acidic
14 is very basic
Seven is neutral
Most aquatic animals prefer a range of 6.5 8.0

Question 27

Turbidity

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Measures the clarity or cloudiness of the water
Is measured in JTU-Jackson turbidity units
Turbid water is caused by suspended matter such as Clay silt organic or inorganic and microscopic organisms

Question 28

Three factors that affect the percent saturation

Answer 28

Salinity and
temperature
atmosphere pressure

Question 29

Water temperature

Answer 29

Affects the ability of the water to hold oxygen

Call water has more dissolved accident them warm water
Affect the rate of photosynthesis aquatic plants