1977 Goal to make all US waters safe for fishing and swimming by 1983

all populations in a given area

Two types of moderate macroinvertibrates

Damselfly (Odonata) Dragonfly (Odonata) Beetle Larvae (Coleoptera) Cranefly (Diptera) Scuds (amphipoda) Crayfish (Crustacea) Sowbug (Isopoda) Clam (pelecypoda) Water Scorpion (Hemiptera) Water Strider (Hemiptera) Whirligig beetle (Coleoptera)

Increase in H2O temp that has a farmful effect on aquatic life

An underground formation that contains water, porous, water saturated layers of sand, gravel or rock through which groundwaer flows

A species that creates habitat for other organisms; critical for environment

The water portion of Earth's crust

Two types of Sensitive macroinvertabrates

Mayfly (Ephemeroptera) Stoneflies (Plecoptera) Caddisflies (trichoptera) Hellgrammite(megaloptera) Water Penny (Coleoptera) Riffle beetle (Coleoptera) Gilled Snail (Gastropoda) Freshwater mussels (pelecypoda) Fishfly (megaloptera)

Excess nutrients causing a rapid burst of algae growth. When the algae die, the bacteria breaking down use up all the dissolved oxygen in the water (also known as eutrophication)

Three types of aquatic organisms based on where they live and how they move

Plankton: drifters/week swimmers Nekton: free swimmers Benthos: live on bottom, don't move a lot

the surface area or region from which water drains into a stream, river, reservoir, or other water body

Hydrologic (water) cycle (9 steps)

Evaporation Transpiration Evapotranspiration Condensation Infiltration Runoff Sublimation Powered by the SUN

Travel Recreation Drinking Cooking Cleaning Washing Agriculture Mining Industry Water disposal Produing energy

Three threats to rivers

Thermal pollution industry sediment point source pollution non-point source pollution Eutrophication biomagnification

Three main classes of fish (nekton)

Agnotha - Jawless Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous skeleton Osteichthyes - bony fish, most common

Water that seeps down through the soil, fills voids in the soil and rock and is stored underground

zone of land, air and water at earth's surface where organisms can live

Boundary between zone of saturation and dryer zone above it

all of the communities of living things in an area and the abiotic, non-living portions of the environment

Two types of Tolerant macroinvertebrates

Midge fly (Diptera) Black Fly (Diptera) Horesfly ( Diptera) Rat-tailed Maggot (Diptera) Pouch snail (Gastropoda) Leech (Annelida) Aquatic worms (Annelida) Tubifex worms (Annelida)

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Biotic

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living

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Abiotic

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Nonliving

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Environment

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everything that surrounds an organism

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Catadromous

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living in freshwater, go to ocean to spawn, Example: American Eel

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Anadromous

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living in ocean, go to the freshwater to spawn Example Salmon

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Population

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all members of one species in a given area.

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Limnology

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Scientific study of inland fresh water bodies (ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, wetlands)

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