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- What is the role of midges in sewage treatment?
- feed on algae + sediment
- Comple changes in the composition of bottom-dwelling communities, as measured both ____(1)_____ and _____(2)_____ will reflect either nonoptimum or intolerable quality shifts.
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1.) qualitatively
2.) quanitatively - Intermittent
- Water flows discontinuous during parts or year
- Describe the problem with monitoring water chemistry of fishes:
- It reflects the quality of water only at times of samples taken.
- Different respiratory types of aquatic insects and describe
- Contact air-water, extended air-water (tube), air bubbles, underwater stream, gills, submerged
- Proleg
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Fleshy, Unsegmeneted, leglike or lobelike structure, usually in pairs
- Sprawlers
- Crawl on various surfaces of such substrates
- Name 7 reasons why an environmental impact study involving aquatic organisms should be conducted:
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1.) Create a reservior
2.) Dredge a stream
3.) Construct power plant cooling facilities.
4.) Construct sewage treatment plants
5.) Construct factories which devliver potentially toxic effluents into a river or lake
6.) Mining or deforestration activities
7.) Spraying chemicals over wetland and forests. - Substrate
- Fixed or floating inorganic or organic object
- Who formalized AE into a discipline?
- James G. Needham
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Using the picture key:
The user is given ___a___ alternatives. Choose the ___b___ that applies to the insect under study.
Orders will generally key out more than ___c___ end point in the key. This is to accommodate the varios ___d___ and the la -
a - 2
b - alternative
c - 1
d - stages
e - degree - What is the role of aquatic flies in sewage treatment?
- Prevent surface film of ooze.
- Benthos
- bottom dwellers - on or around substrate
- How does AE interact with the food web?
- Terestrial + aquatic organisms heavily forage on both aquatic + terr. stages of aquatics.
- Swimmers
- Water beatles + bugs
- What are some car related problems that come with aquatic insects?
- They could get stuck or lay eggs in car finishes
- Burrowers
- burrow in soft-bottom substrates
- Bottom-dwelling insects maintain a relatively ____1____ position in the aquatic environment
- 1.) stable
- Climbers
- Reside in plant stem root systems; moss
- What is the role of bacteria in sewage treatment?
- promotes breakdown of sewage
- Clingers
- benthic insects that cling to substrates
- Name 3 insect born diseases
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1.) Malaria
2.) Encephalitis
3.) Yellow Fever - Floaters
- live at or near water surface
- What is the role of algae in sewage treatment?
- eventual by-product
- Facet
- One of the ports or lenslike division of a compound eye
- What is the role of the World Health Organization (WHO)?
- To control pests!
- What is a bioassy?
- Biological indicators used soley for the purpose of targeting toxins in streams, etc
- Wing pad
- Developing or sheath of developing wing
- How does AE interact with other disciplines?
- Many aquatic flies are of importance as disease vectors. AE interacts with medical entomology + parsitology.
- How many species of Ephmeroptera are found in NA north of Mexico?
- Over 700
- Name 6 insect pests that bite man
- Black, Sand, Horse, Deer Flies, Mosquitoes, and Biting Midges
- Explain forage ratio:
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%of food
__________
% of same food item available in fishes environment - Molting
- Shed exoskeleton + grow new one.
- Process
- Robust, often acute, unsocketed outgrowths or extension of
- Cast skin
- The shedded exoskeleton
- Notum
- Dorsal surface of a body segment
- Perennial
- Water flows continually throughout year
- What is the difference b/w growth and maturation?
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Growth - increase in size
Maturation - morphological + psychological growth