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AqScienceVocab

Aquatic Science Final Exam Vocabulary

QuestionAnswer
Lentic standing body of water such as pond or lake
Lotic flowing body of water such as a river or stream
Allochthonous material from outside a system such as leaves, sticks and limbs that fall into an aquatic system
Benthic ecological region at the lowest level of an aquatic system
Limnology study of inland water
Laminar Flow smooth streamline type of viscous flow in which fluid behaves in an orderly layer
Turbulent Flow flow in which particle movement is not straight or parallel but chaotic; water has great deal of disturbance
Spate Heavy, sudden downpour of rain
Fecundity Ability to reproduce
Hyporheic Zone Layer under gravel of ephemeral stream with living organisms
Aquifer underground cavern filled with water
Geomorphology branch of geology that studies the configurtion of landforms; effects water drainage patterns
Sinuosity bending, winding and curving in a stream or river
Riparian Zone narrow strips of land located beside rivers, streams or creeks
Sediment greatest threat to water quality;Solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice
Dissolved Oxygen amount of oxygen gas held in an aquatic environment; diresctly affected by temperature
Watershed area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place
Hydrograph plot of changes of water flow of a river or stream over a period of time
Lake Stratification layering of a body of water due to changes in temperature and density; forms epilimnion, metalimnion, and hypolimnion
Wetlands area of transition between land and water
Current A body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement
Waves water movements in which water rises and falls
Tides shallow water waves caused by the interaction among the gravity of the sun, earth, and moon
Bay body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline , larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
Gulf portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land
Sound an inlet, bay or recessed portion of the ocean
Strait narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
Reservoir lake used to store water for community use
Estruary an arm or inlet of the sea at the lower end of a river
EMBAH Vertical zones of the ocean according to depth. epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, abyssopelagic, hadapelagic
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