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Upstream Study !!!
| 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 |
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