Question | Answer |
What is aquatic resource conservation? | Everyone's responsibility |
What kind of aquatic ecosystems do we have? | producers, consumers and secondary consumers |
What is biodiversity? | a number and variety of things living in an environment |
What is extinction? | when a specific species dies out and there is none left |
What is an endangered species? | a species that is slowly dying out |
What is the biggest threat to aquatic ecosystems? | human pollution |
What is carrying capacity | an ecosystems resource limit |
What is competition? | The act of actively seeking after and using environmental resource(such as food) in limited supply by two or more plants or animals or kinds of plants and animals |
What is a species? | A group of individuals sharing some common characteristics or qualities and whose offspring also share those characteristics and qualities |
What is adaption? | A behavior or trait that increases a species chance of survival in a specific environment |
What is sediment? | Silt, sand, rocks and other matter carried and deposited by moving water |
What is a watershed? | All the land from which water drains into a specific body of water |
Where does water go when it runs off the street? | It flows into ditches and storm drains then dumps directly into streams lakes and wetlands. |
How does water temperature effect the amount of oxygen in the water? | When it’s too cold the leaves of the plant flatten out and stop photosynthesis |
What is conservation? | The wise use of natural resources such that their use is sustainable long term |
What is the percent of freshwater on earth? | 3% fresh water, 0.5% liquid fresh water as 0.0025% availible fresh water |