Unit 4 Vocabulary ~ Environmental Science Questions & Answers
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Unit 4 Vocabulary ~ Environmental
water cycle - ANSWERSthe continuous circulation of water throughout our environment
aquifers - ANSWERSlayers of porous underground rock where water can flow
storages - ANSWERSwhere water can be found within the hydrologic cycle
watershed - ANSWERSthe total land area that contributes water ...
Unit 4 Vocabulary ~ Environmental
Science Questions & Answers
water cycle - ANSWERSthe continuous circulation of water throughout our environment
aquifers - ANSWERSlayers of porous underground rock where water can flow
storages - ANSWERSwhere water can be found within the hydrologic cycle
watershed - ANSWERSthe total land area that contributes water into a particular
waterway
Drainage Basin - ANSWERSlarge watersheds
overland flow - ANSWERSanother way to say "surface runoff"
topography - ANSWERSthe shape of a land surface that determines what land area will
make up a watershed
Hydrologic Cycle - ANSWERSanother name for the Water Cycle
stream order - ANSWERSmeasures the relative size of streams
benthic - ANSWERSbottom dwelling
invertebrate - ANSWERSan organism with no backbone
insects - ANSWERSanthropods with aquatic larval stage
crustaceans - ANSWERSaquatic anthropods with an exoskeleton
annelids - ANSWERSsegmented worms
mollusks - ANSWERSsoft, unsegmented body enclosed in a hard shell
shredders - ANSWERSorganisms that shred and eat leaves and other organic matter
that enters the waters
collectors - ANSWERSorganisms that gather and feed on decaying material and
bacteria
grazers - ANSWERSorganisms that remove and eat green plants and algae off of rocks
or the bottom of the stream
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