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ohhhhhhhhhh boy there's a lot of terms herrre
actually some of them i just put in to fill space, easy ones
haha sorry about those
actually some of them i just put in to fill space, easy ones
haha sorry about those
Terms
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- Wetlands
- Areas that are covered with water for a large part of the year
- Zooplankton
- The animal plankton
- Intertidal Zone
- Land that is alternately covered with water and exposed to air
- Nonpoint Source
- Point or nonpoint source of pollution? ~ Contaminated groundwater
- Heavy Metals
- Water soluble forms of certain metals (lead, mercury) which are harmful at low levels, and they stay in the fatty tissue of animals
- Benthos
- Another name for bottom dwellers
- Anadromous Fish
- Born in freshwater, spend their lives in saltwater, then return to freshwater to make babies (Striped bass, atlantic salmon etc.)
- Pathogens
- Viruses, bacteria, and other microorganisms that cause disease. Beaches test for Coliform bacteria to determine pathogen risk
- Nonpoint Source
- A pollutant that does not come from a specfic site- from a wide area (e.g. litter on beach, runoff, acid rain, smog, etc.)
- Habitat
- An area that has the perfect conditions for a specific animal to live HINT: HOME
- Biotic
- Living
- Water Column
- All of the water above the bottom of the Sound
- Watershed
- An entire land and water area that flows into a body of water
- Saltwater Fish
- Fish that are born and spend their entire lives in saltwater
- Hypoxia
- The condition of the water when dissolved oxygen is consumed faster than it is supplied
- Toxic Chemicals
- Substances that can kill or damage any living thing
- Point Source
- Point or non-point source of pollution? ~ A pipe dumping waste into the ocean
- Estuary
- A partly enclosed body of water where saltwater and freshwater meet, and they are one of the richest and most producted areas on earth
- LIS Watershed States
- New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusets, Connecticut, plus parts of Canada
- Nitrogen
- A nutrient that may cause algae bloom which leads to hypoxia
- PPT
- The abreviation (did I spell that right?) for parts per thousand
- Sessile
- An animal that doesn't move, instead it grows attached to something (clams, barnacles, etc.)
- Pollutant
- Anything in the air, water, or earth that is harmful or interferes with a desired activity
- Salinity
- Salt content
- Nutrients
- Substances essential to living things
- Advanced
- Sewage treatment that attempts to remove nitrogen, other heavy metals, and nonbiodegradable organic chemicals
- Pesticides
- Type of organic chemical- natural or synthetic chemical used to kill a plant or animal *STAYS IN ENVIRONMENT haha
- Secondary
- Sewage treatment that accelerates the decay of organic matter by natural organisms. Heavy metals and nonbiodegradable organic chemicals (like PCP's or pesticides) may remain.
- Nonpoint Source
- Point or nonpoint source of pollution? ~ Garbage dump runoff
- Airborne Pollutant
- Starts in the air and becomes a water pollutant when it is dissolved in rain or floats in the water
- Adaption
- An organism's characteristices that allow it to survive (or not) in its environment
- Primary
- Sewage treatment that removes solids from the wastewater
- Erosion and Sedimentation
- The wearing away of soil by water, wind, and other forces
- Brackish Water
- Saltwater mixed with freshwater
- Filter Feeder
- An organism that takes in water to filter out the food and then releases extra water (like clams, oysters, and barnacles)
- Food Web
- Intertwined food chains, begins with algae, seaweeds, grass etc. and end with decomposers
- Wave Action
- Mixes the two layers of water by churning and storms
- Abiotic
- Non-living
- Adriaen Block
- Dutch sailor who discovered Long Island
- Winter
- In which season are there more phytoplankton located in the water?
- Consumer
- Eats producers and other consumers~ ANIMALS
- Marsh to Marina
- 1. Dense pop. of Indians in NA 2. Settlement being established by Europeans 3. Indians disappear 4. Industry is increasing- land is being used 5. Wetlands are disappearing 6. Scientists recomment a national fund for ecosystem restoration
- Phytoplankton
- The plant plankton, base of food web, need sunlight
- How Oxygen Enters the LIS
- Wind, wave action, and plants (photosynthesis)
- Sewer System
- Complex of pipes and pumps that carry sewage to the sewage treatment plant
- Low Energy Shoreline
- Connecticut's shoreline is protected from the full effect of ocean wind and waves because it is a ______
- Carnivore
- A consumer that eats only animals
- Nonpoint Source
- Point or nonpoint source of pollution? ~ Stormwater runoff
- Point Source
- Point or nonpoint source of pollution? ~ Boat dumpage
- Storm Sewers
- Sewers carrying human waste
- Omnivore
- A consumer that eats both plants and animals
- Herbivore
- A consumer that eats only plantss
- LIS Formation
- 1. NA and Africa split 2. Glaciers covered the land from Canada to NY and CT 3. Glaciers reached their southernmost point leaving a moraine (LIS) 4. Glaciers melted and LIS was a glacial lake 5. Seawater flowed into the LIS at the Race 6. Plant and animal habitats from along shores of LI, which is now an estuary
- Producers
- Convert the sun's solar energy into food PLANTS
- The Race
- The opening at the eastern end of the Sound where ocean water enters, narrow inlet, separates LI from CT
- Plankton
- Plants and animals that drift or swim weakly in water HINT: SPONGEBOB
- Pycnocline
- The layer between the warmer, less dense water (TOP) and the cooler, denser water (BOTTOM)
- Floatables
- Waterborne debris that washes up on the shore LITTER
- Decomposers
- Bacteria in the water and bottom sediments that break down dead organisms and return the raw materials to the environment, bottom of the food web
- Freshwater
- Water that is low in dissolved materials
- Hell Gate
- The western opening of Long Island Sound, rough waters
- Impervious
- The name for a paved/manmade surface
- Point Source
- A pollutant that enters the environment from a single source (discharge pipe, boat oil spill, etc.)
- Tidal Flats
- Areas where the land is underwater most of the time, look barren, no grass or rooted plants, algae, and small fish and shellfish live here
- Bottom Dwellers
- Plants and animals that live on or in the floor of a saltwater body like the LIS
- Coliform
- Bacteria- a type of pathogen that beaches test for
- Calcium
- Determines whether water is hard or soft
- Sewage
- Waste from homes, buildings, etc. (poopies)
- Combined Sewer Overflow
- Partially treated sewage and street runoff released into natural waters after heavy rainfall (CSO)
- Salt Marsh
- Higher up in the intertidal sone, land that remains underwater for less time than in the flats, which contain the 2/3 of edible fish and shell fish that depend on it for food
- Eastern
- Which basin of the LIS has the best water quality, Western, Eastern, or Central?
- Moraine
- An accumulation of rocky material transported and deposited by glacial ice
- West
- Hypoxia is normally the worst towards this end of the Sound due to the higher population density.
- Organic Substances
- Contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and may be a plant, or an animal product, or synthetic
- Point Source
- Point or nonpoint source of pollution? ~ A person littering