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Test 1

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Limnos   Latin for marsh or a wet place  
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Lentic System   standing water ecosystems  
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Lotic System   flowing water ecosystems  
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reservoir   artificial lentic ecosystem  
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rock pool   tinajas, gnammas, or pot holes  
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tree hole   small pools of water inside trees but open to the air; caused by decaying matter  
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temporary streams   flow during part of the year and dry up for part of the year  
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intermittent streams   flow above the surface in certain places and below in others  
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What are the 4 factors that are independent measurements of a Lentic Ecosystem?   Area, Depth, Volume, Shape  
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What is the dependent factor of a Lentic Ecosystem?   Shoreline  
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Dendritic Pattern   "angry dragon;" occurs when a river is dammed; water backs up and floods the tributaries  
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Lake Position: (-3)   highest elevation; water only leaves by evaporation; fed only by direct precipitation to the surface or watershed runoff  
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Lake Position: (-2)   fed only by direct precipitation to surface or runoff; leaves by evaporation or ground seepage  
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Lake Position: (-1)   fed by direct precipitation, runoff, and groundwater; leaves as seepage or streamflow  
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Lake Position: (1)   fed by precipitation, surface flow, and groundwater; leaves as groundwater and permanent streamflow  
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Lake Position: (2)   fed by precipitation, surface flow, groundwater, and streamflow; leaves by evaporation, groundwater, and streamflow  
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water turnover   length of time it takes for every water molecule to be replaced in a body of water; aka recharge time  
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Alpine glaciation   occurs in mountains, right below highest peaks; glaciers cut out depression  
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Cirque   depression on the side of a mountain, created by a glacier  
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Tarn   depression on the side of a mountain, created by a glacier, that is filled with water  
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Continental glaciation   glaciers scour the surface, digging narrow valleys and creating glacial till  
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proglacial   water runoff proceeded the glacier, filling shallow basins  
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caused floods of Biblical proportions with a wall of water 600ft high   glacial Lake Missoula  
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kettle ponds   big chunks of ice fell off of glaciers and eventually melted into the depressions they caused  
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alluvial dam   faster river deposits sediment at the mouth of the slower river, causing a dam  
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habitat tracking   organisms will find their habitat and live there no matter what  
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Lake Vostok   named after one of Russia's early satellites; under more than 1km of ice, 4km deep and as big as Lake Erie; located in Antarctica  
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oxbow lake   a cut off meander of a stream/river  
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karst topography   formed by limestone being diluted, forming caved  
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permafrost   permanently frozen soil; when it collapses, some will melt and fill the depression  
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graben   depressed block of land bordered by parallel faults; the result of a block of land being downthrown producing a valley with a distinct scarp on each side  
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tectonic activity   movement of Earth's crust  
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example of a graben   Lake Tahoe  
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caldera   cauldron-like volcanic feature usually formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption  
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example of a caldera lake   Crater Lake  
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orogeny   the natural process of mountain building  
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viscosity   describes a fluid's internal resistance to flow  
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When is water density the greatest?   At 4 degrees Celsius  
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two ions that disrupt the freezing point and cause a freezing point depression   sodium and hydrogen  
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turbidity   the ability for light to penetrate  
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fetch   distance wind travels uninterrupted across a body of water  
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seiche   occurs when the wind is blowing strong enough to push all the water to one side of the lake  
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spring overturn   oxygen and temperature remain fairly constant  
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Dimictic   has both autumnal and vernal overturns; lake freezes in winter  
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Monomictic   has only autumnal overturn; doesn't freeze in winter  
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Amictic   has no overturn; permanently covered in ice  
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Polymictic   usually tropical and shallow; overturns and stratifications occurs often, based on wind speed  
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Meromictic   monimolimnion has a high concentration of a substance (usually carbon dioxide); when it's turned, all of that substance is released into the atmosphere  
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the layers in a lake   epilimnion - metalimnion - hypolimnion - monimolimnion  
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orthograde oxygen profile   dissolved oxygen profile is uniform  
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clinograde oxygen profile   stratification is visible  
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positive heterograde oxygen profile   algal plate  
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negative heterograde oxygen profile   bacterial plate  
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thermocline   located within the metalimnion; point at which temperature is changing fastest  
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chemocline   thin band between the hypolimnion and the monimolimnion where the concentration of chemical X increases  
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