Quiz 11 Unit 6

What is the measure of chemical, physical, biological, and radiological condition of water?

• water condition

• water quality

• lead poisoning

• oxygen quality

True or False? Lead poisoning can be reversed (cured).

• True

• False

True or False? The Chesapeake Bay is very healthy.

• True

• False

What is the place where the river meets an ocean?

• pond

• stream

• estuary

• river-bank

The change in precipitation is increasing the amounts of which TWO nutrients in the Bay? Select TWO answers.

• oxygen

• nitrogen

• carbon dioxide

• phosphorus

What are areas of low oxygen in which few organisms can survive?

• dead zone

• estuary

• dead end

• runoff

Another word for "oxygen deficiency" is ....

• hypoxia

• hypnosis

• estuary

• oxygen

Nitrogen and phosphorus that run off into the Bay comes from...

• sleet

• farm fertilizers

• fossil fuels

• cars

True or False? Policy encourages farmers to use less fertilizer to decrease nutrient runoff.

• True

• False

What occurs when colonies of algae grow out of control and produce toxic or harmful effects on people and marine animals?

• helpful algal blooms (HABs)

• estuary

• harmful algal blooms (HABs)

• runoff