Environmental Science MP 1 review

Which mentioned gas dissolves in water?

• Carbon Dioxide

• Ozone

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen Dioxide

What are the dangers of excessive growth of algae and plants

• They might take up too much room

• They block sunlight for other organisms

• They do not harm other organisms

• Other organisms eat them and they are toxic

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Which of the following is NOT a source of nitrates and phosphates into a river?

• Fertilizers

• Animal waste

• Wastewater

• Burning fossil fuels

An increase in the amount of nutrients in a lake is known as

• calcification

• cellular respiration

• eutrophication

• photosynthesis

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Do not forget! There are aquatic plants under the lake too! What do you think the algae would do to the plants at the bottom of the lake?

• The aquatic plants will not be affected by the algae

• Sunlight cannot reach the bottom of the lake because the surface is covered in algae

• Sunlight can reach the bottom pf the lake. There is no problem.

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Water flows through permeable materials ____________________ than impermeable materials.

• slower
• faster

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The ___________________ the grain size, the faster the water will move through the soil.

• more mixed
• smaller
• larger

the measure of the storage space available in an aquifer.

• aquifer
• permeability
• porosity
• divide

Rain and snowmelt that infiltrates the ground is called

• backflow

• groundwater

• spongate

• infiltrate

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What is a watershed?

• watershed is when runoff and groundwater drain into a body of water.

• Watershed is when water runs down a hill

• watershed is when water falls from the sky

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