EES Hydrology

If starting on top of a mountain as the highest point, rain or snow melts from this area will produce:

• Channel

• Headwaters

• Stream Load

• Mouth

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The water cycle is driven by two things:

• rain and gravity

• solar energy and gravity

• condensation and gravity

• tides and rain

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Wetlands can do all except:

• provide a home for wildlife

• Filter pollutants

• reduce carbonic acid

• give flood protection

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Nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen added to a body of water causes:

• filtering

• gravity

• lithification

• Eutrophication

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Infiltration is the following:

• evaporation

• water moving through soil into groundwater

• formation of clouds from the ocean

• None

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The coastal zone makes up % of the ocean and houses _% of the ocean's species

• 10, 90

• 20, 80

• 40, 60

• 5, 95

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Non-point source of pollution

• factories

• waste treatment plant

• runoff from a farm

• factory smoke

EPA regulated this act starting in 1972

• Clean Water Act

• safe drinking water act

• freshwater act

• ocean protection act

Mercury is known to:

• cause stomach ulcers

• kill brain cells

• cause cancer

• cause heart disease

When fertilizers lead to low oxygen in a lake, this can happen:

• algae consume the oxygen

• bacteria consume the oxygen

• plants consume the oxygen

• fish consume the oxygen

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