Aquatic Bio Chpt. 1
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- Nitrite
- (NO2-)
- prokaryotic cells
- cells that don't have a nucleus
- Plecoptera
- stoneflies
- nuetral pH
- 7
- pH
- power of Hydorgen
- condensation
- the porcess of water vapor forming liquid water
- ground water
- all freshwater that collects beneath the earth's surface
- 3 body regions of insects
- head, thorax, and abdomen
- nitrobacter
- a bacteria that transforms nitrite into nitrate
- evaporation
- when liquid water is changed to a vapor state
- invertabrates
- organisms without a backbone
- benthic
- bottom
- solvent
- something that dissolves something else
- transpiration
- the process by which water evaporates from plants
- Four major insect categories
- mayflies, stoneflies, caddis flies, and midges
- nitrosomonos
- a becteria that transforms ammonia into nitrite
- biological filter
- a natural filtering system consisting of helpful bacterial colonies that convert harmful pollutants into nitrite
- surface water
- all freshwater located on the earth's surface
- Diptera
- midges
- marine biology
- study of saltwater organisms
- Ammonia
- (NH4+)
- infiltration
- the process of water seeping into soil
- ELPA
- egg, larvae, pupa, adult
- fishless cycling
- a method of establishing a biological filter without using fish
- dissolved oxygen
- amount of oxygen measured in water
- aquatic biology
- study of freshwater organisms
- fungi
- live by feeding on living organisms or on the remains of dead ones
- Three categories of plants in water
- algae, mosses, and flowering plants
- precipitation
- water vapor condenses in atmosphere and falls to earth
- Ephemeroptera
- mayflies
- ENA
- egg, nymph, adult
- Trichoptera
- caddis flies
- Nitrate
- (NO3-)
- metamorphisis
- change in form and structure