Question | Answer |
Macrophytes | rooted aquatic plants that you can see with a naked eye |
A stream with very good water quality in Michigan should have | high oxygen concetration and low turbidity |
Which organisms would likely be found living in low flow, sluggish, low oxygen streams? | blood worms (midge larvae) |
Nonpoint source runoff | mostly originates from road and agricultural runoff |
A change in pH of 3 to a pH of 7 is an increase in magnitude of | 10,000 |
Water in the ground which moves through the cracks in bedrock and permeable soils is called | groundwater discharge |
Multiple use often results in | A compromise in water quality management strategies due to competing interests in the same large stream or reservoir. |
Acid Rain is caused by | Nitric/Sulfric acid from car and power plant emissions |
During decomposition of plant or animals, oxygen near the stream bottom will: | Decrease |
Photosynthesis takes place: | only during the day |
Metabolism in plants takes place: | during both the day and night |
The BOD in highly pristine Upper Peninsula streams would be ____________ compared to the highly industrialized Hudson River | lower |
HAB stands for | Harmful Algal Bloom |
The purpose of setae on a macroinvertebrate is to | sense its physical environment |
Permeable surfaces are | porous substrages |
Water Bugs generally tell us what about most streams | they are not in every body, so they tell us nothing about the stream |
The purpose of monitoring is | to track changes in water quality and pollution impacts over time, so we can manage better |
Macro-invertebrates are useful as indicators because they integrate environmental conditions from the last | 2-4 years |
A Super Fund Site is set up and monitored by what entity | federal government |
A stream buffer | protects the stream from non-point source runoff and erosion |
Stakeholders in the Bort-Lambrecht watershed include | Berrien County Officials, Potawatomi Indians substance fishing in the Great Lakes,
Upton Teachers and students |
A surrogate is | substitute |