Hydrosphere Vocab. Quiz

Hydrosphere Vocab. Quiz

Multiple Choice

_____________: excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.

• Eutrophication

• Estuary

• Transpiration

• Stormwater Runoff

Multiple Choice

_______________: precipitation (rain, or snow melt) that flows over the land and/or impermeable surfaces to local water body.

• Porosity

• Eutrophication

• Stormwater Runoff

• Aquifer

Multiple Choice

______________: a coastal inlet or bay where fresh water from rivers mixes with salty ocean water.

• Upwelling

• Watershed

• Transpiration

• Estuary

Multiple Choice

______________: aquatic animals that are able to swim and move around independantly of water currents.

• Phytoplankton

• Nekton

• Bioindicators

• Macroinvertebrates

Multiple Choice

_____________: the ability to transport and hold water in soil based on size.

• Transpiration

• Permeability

• Porosity

• Upwelling

Multiple Choice

______________: Microscopic photosynthesizers that are transported but the ocean currents.

• Macroinverebrates

• Phytoplankton

• Nekton

• Bioindicators

Multiple Choice

_______________: any heritable trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

• Adaptations

• Chemosynthesis

• Transpiration

• Nekton

Multiple Choice

______________: a material or membrane that allow water and gases to flow through.

• Porosity

• Aquifer

• Eutrophication

• Permeability

Multiple Choice

______________: the area of land which is drained by a main river and its tributaries.

• Watershed

• Estuary

• Stormwater Runoff

• Upwelling

Multiple Choice

_____________: the process by which some organisms use the energy stored in chemical bonds to make their own food.

• Eutrophication

• Photosynthesis

• Chemosynthesis

• Upwelling

Multiple Choice

__________: an organism used to monitor the health of an ecosystem.

• Bioindicators

• Nekton

• Phytoplankton

• Adaptations

Multiple Choice

____________: plants releasing water vapor from their leaves.

• Adaptation

• Chemosynthesis

• Transpiration

• Porosity

Multiple Choice

____________: a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater

• Eutrophication

• Estuary

• Watershed

• Aquifer

Multiple Choice

____________: organisms without backbones, which are visible to the eye without the aid of a microscope.

• Nekton

• Macroinvertibrates

• Adaptations

• Phytoplankton

Multiple Choice

______________: the movement of cold water upward carrying nutrients to the surface.

• Transpiration

• Permeability

• Eutrophication

• Upwelling

Multiple Choice

__________: an organism used to monitor the health of an ecosystem.

• Bioindicators

• Nekton

• Phytoplankton

• Adaptations

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