Quiz #2 Wetlands Project Vocab HS-LS4-6

Species that are very significant to local people and play roles in the diet, materials, medicine, cultural and/or spiritual values of communities.

• Composition

• Correlation

• Culturally important species

• Decompose

To become rotten or decay and break down into smaller parts.

• Composition

• Correlation

• Culturally important species

• Decompose

The breakdown or wearing down of something usually leaves something in a worse state.

• Degradation

• Density

• Diked wetland

• DNA

A measure of how much matter occupies a given amount of space.

• Degradation

• Density

• Diked wetland

• DNA

A structure that is used to control the water level and direction of flow in a river or wetland.

• Degradation

• Density

• Dike

• DNA

Diking wetlands (adding structures that control the flow of water) can degrade the health of the wetland by interfering with natural processes like flooding, wave action, and drought.

• True

• False

Deoxyribonucleic acid - the molecule that plants and animals use as a code to store instuctions for how to make protiens.

• Degradation

• Density

• Dike

• DNA

The community of living (plants, animals, humans) and non-living things (water, rocks, climate) that interact together in an area.

• Ecosystem

• Emergent marsh

• Haline

• Homogenous

A shallow-water wetland along the shores of lakes or streams with grasses and plants that are adapted to live in the shallow water.

• Ecosystem

• Emergent marsh

• Haline

• Homogenous

The measure of saltiness; salinity. From the greek hali meaning salt or lump of salt.

• Ecosystem

• Emergent marsh

• Halinity

• Homogenous