Estuaries, Beaches, and Water

Mangrove forests are located in:

A salt wedge is the sea water along the bed of an estuary.

What is an "infectious disease organism"?

Which statement best describes an estuary?

What is runoff?

What is one way estuaries are affected by human activities?

Which axis on a graph is vertical?

Which best describes a "point source" of water pollution?

What is vertical accretion in a salt marsh?

What is longshore drift?

What is wave refraction?

What is an ocean dead zone?

What is "red tide"?

Which best describes the process of eutrophication?

If a water sample contains 1 ppb of lead, how many ppt does it contain?

What happens to the salt level in an estuary as one moves away from the shore?

Which of the following is a type of estuary?

What percentage of the Earth's surface is land?

What is deposition?

Trash on a beach can impact both tourism and animal life.

Which city's drinking water had dangerously high levels of lead, affecting childrens' development?

Which organism is the base of the food web in an estuary?

Which city was built on an estuary?

Which of the following is a type of estuary?

What percentage of people, worldwide, do not have access to clean drinking water?

Mangrove trees grow in arid, desert environments.

Sea level rise is 5 mm/year. How many years will pass before the sea level has risen 2 cm?

What is "brackish" water?