Land, Water, Human Interactions Practice 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 to 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 called?

• 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