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EP Ch 7

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Environmental Problems Ch 7 Review    
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Function of Wetlands   absorb and remove pollutants, trap carbon, control floods  
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Estuaries   receive nutrients from oceans and rivers, damaged by the amount of pollution, both fresh and salt water, changes in salinity  
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Coastal pollution   industrial waste and sewage  
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Swamps   flat poorly drained land  
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Marine organisms   most found in shallow coastal waters  
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Rivers   on flatter ground they widen, warm, and slow,move faster and increase oxygen levels as they near the ocean  
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Threats to the ocean   nutrient runoff, industrial waste, overfishing, sewage, algal blooms  
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Lakes and ponds   organisms depend on sunlight, nutrients, temperature  
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Littoral zone   life is diverse, found near the shore  
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Benthic zone   cool and dark  
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Nekton   swims freely, nekton  
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Benthos   lives attached to a surface, barnacle  
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Producers   phytoplankton  
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Wetlands   many nutrients and a lot of photosynthesis, once seen as disease infested wasteland, various plants and animals  
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Coral reefs   built by tiny marine organisms, threatened by oil spills, sewage, and pesticides, made of secreted calcium  
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Freshwater wetlands   marshes and swamps  
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Salt marshes   very high salt content dominated by marsh grasses  
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Mangrove swamp   dominated by marsh grasses  
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Deep ocean   no sunlight for photosynthesis  
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Arctic   nutrients from the ocean  
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Open ocean   least productive marine ecosystem  
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Eutrophication   too many nutrients in a lake, promotes plant growth  
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Rhizoids   attach mosses to rocks  
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Barrier islands   long thin, run parallel to shore  
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Salinity   amount of dissolved salts in water  
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Ocean pollution   traced back to land  
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Plankton   zooplankton and phytoplankton  
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Marsh   wetland with non  
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Swamp   wetland dominated by woody plants  
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Compare the benthic and littoral zones of a lake    
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Relationship between coral and algae   how does pollution affect it?  
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Oxygen concentration graph    
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