Enviromental Science Vocab

What is the Least damaging fishing method

coastal wetlands dominated by salt-tolerant plants(TREES)

coral reefs provide which of the following benefits

A net that can be drawn into the shape of a circular bag.

What is Brackish?

Which area has the lowest amount of photosynthetic plants?

Choose the zone of open water where photosynthesis can occur

the surface layer of aquatic environments that is penetrated by sunlight

In Lakes, open, sun-lit surface

What is the small body of water in the picture?

A series of baited hooks strung out to catch species such as tuna

Choose the zone where sunlight can reach all the way to the bottom soil layer.

The biome in the ocean receives marine snow

Which of the following are ecological and economic services provided by inland wetlands

Which is Standing (lentic) bodies of freshwater

Nutrients that move from bottom of ocean to oceans surface.

Sunlight can reach this biome in the ocean.

The first letter "P" in the acronym HIPPCO stands for

What is the Dimly-lit middle zone in ocean....

In Large Lakes deep, open water,(middle)

Flowing (lotic) systems of freshwater

In an aquatic system, what are the key factors in determining diversity of organisms?

What is the most damaging fishing method

temperate zone estuaries located along seacoasts

a single-celled organism that ingests its food by engulfing it with appendages

This has doubled since 1860 and causes eutrophication of marine and freshwater systems?

aquatic ecosystems that contain dissolved salts

An Mangrove is ......

a body of water separated from a larger body of water by a reef or strip of land

An Estuary is ......

Organisms in this biome, avoid being swept away, crushed by waves, and left high at low tides.

of or having to do with water.....

Which of the following is not a lake zone?

Primarily inhabited by invertebrates, such as decomposers, that can live in the low oxygen.

Hanging vertical nets in the water to catch fish by the gills when they swim into them

bottom of a Lake

Which is NOT a Standing (lentic) bodies of freshwater

All of the following are major threats to marine systems EXCEPT

Deep lakes with a small supply of nutrients are

Which of the following is NOT a threat to sea turtles?

HIPPCO is an acronym that aids in remembering

Dragging nets along the bottom to capture species that live on the oceanic sea-floor

refers to the amount of salt dissolved in a medium (saltwater)