click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
help with science
subjects that need help for EOG
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nitrates | comes from fertilizers,consitered nutrients, bad for H2O (makes more alge) disired to be lower than 2 |
| temprature | cooler is better 45 degrees F |
| dissolved oxygen | should be high, higher than 4 ppm |
| pH | measures activity or alkalinity |
| turbidity | measures cloudiness of H2O ( high turbidity=cloudy, low turbidity= good) |
| Bio-indicators | living things that indicate the quality of the H2O (leeches,worms,and mosquitos are bad indicators: dragonflys,fish,mayflys,and caddisflys are good indicators) |
| geologic time scale | a timeline that organizes the events in Earth`s history Eon,Era,Period,Epoch in descending order |
| Lithosphere | the crust of the Earth. it is broken into sections called plates |
| Law of superposition | in undesturbed sedimentary rock layers, older layers of rock lie beneath younger rock layers |
| radioactive dating | Radioactive Dating, the calculation of a substance's age by measurement of the radioactive material it contains or of the amount of natural atomic fission that has occurred in the substance |