Aquatic Biology Flashcards
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- prokaryotic cells
- cells lacking a nucleus
- Marine Biologist
- one who studies saltwater organisms and their environment
- infiltration
- when liquids seep into the soil
- high heat capacity
- the ability to store heat without a large temperature change
- biological filter
- a natural filtering system consisting of helpful bacteria colonies that,through a cycling process, convert pollutants in water to harmless nitrate
- Fresh water
- water with low salt content
- Imstar
- form assumed beetween succesful molts
- Saline
- salt containing lakes and inland seas
- precipitation
- water vapor in the atomosphere that condenses as rain, sleet and snow and falls to the earth
- Stonefly
- Plecoptera/Aquatic insect whose wings are folded over their back
- Nitrosomonos
- convert ammonia into nitrite
- Benthic
- bottom
- Transpiration
- water evaporating from plants
- Nitrobacter
- convert nitrite into nitrate
- Mayfly
- Ephemeroptera/Aquatic insect that has upright wings
- Caddisfly
- Trichoptera/Aquatic insect whose wings are shaped like a tent.
- condensation
- the process of a vapor cooling and forming a liquid
- Aquatic Biologist
- person who studies freshwater organisms and their environment
- groundwater
- water collected beneath the earth's surface
- invertebrate
- organism lacking a backbone
- Midge
- Diptera/Aquatic insect with short wings
- evaporation
- when liquids are changed into a vapor state-gas
- runoff
- when water drains or flows off of the land surface
- solvent
- something that dissolves something else
- Bond
- strong force of attraction between molecules
- algal bloom
- a massive growth of algae occuring in slow waters due to low oxygen
- vertebrate
- organism having a backbone
- Metamorphasis
- change in form and structure