Vocab Quiz 1-6

What is a near-shore area of water with little or no dissolved oxygen, and therefore, very few organisms?

• macroinvertebrates

• dead zone

• contaminant

• runoff

What is information that supports or refutes a claim?

• indicator

• model

• evidence

• trade-off

What is something that happens in a repeated and predictable way?

• pattern

• correlation

• causal relationship

• model

What is a relationship in which one factor causes an effect on the other factor? (The first event is the cause and the result is the effect.)

• pattern

• correlation

• causal relationship

• model

What is any representation of a system (or its components) used to help one understand and communicate how it works?

• pattern

• correlation

• causal relationship

• model

What is a measure of how well one set of data relates to another?

• pattern

• correlation

• causal relationship

• model

What is any physical, chemical, or biological substance in water?

• contaminant

• nutrients

• groundwater

• indicator

What is the effect on living organisms and their nonliving environment due to human activity?

• indicator

• human impact

• dead zone

• water quality

What is the amount of salt that is dissolved in the water called?

• salinity

• solvent

• dissolve

• indicator

What is a substance that dissolves other substances?

• salinity

• solvent

• dissolve

• indicator