Week 14 Vocab Quiz

Generate a vibrant landscape image showing a river basin, estuarine environment, and various aquatic plants and animals, emphasizing the interaction of fresh and saltwater.

Week 14 Vocabulary Quiz

Test your knowledge on key vocabulary related to rivers, lakes, and ecosystems! This quiz will challenge your understanding of important environmental concepts and terms.

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All of the land surface dissected and drained by many streams and creeks that flow downhill into one another, and eventually into one river is a ...

Channel

River basin

Tributaries

Estuary

Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.

Eutrophication

Turnover

Constipation

Correlation

These are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water—a mixture of fresh water draining from the land and salty seawater. These bodies of water usually found where rivers meet the sea.

Wetland

Tributary

Confluence

Estuary

This is the rate at which energy is converted to organic substances by photosynthetic producers (photoautotrophs), which obtain energy and nutrients by harnessing sunlight, and chemosynthetic producers (chemoautotrophs), which obtain chemical energy through oxidation.

Chemosynthesis

Food web

Primary Productivity

Primary Biodegradation

Pollutant

Any substance, as certain chemicals or products, that renders the air, soil, water, or other natural resource sanitary or suitable for a specific purpose.

Any substance, as certain chemicals or waste products, that renders the air, soil, water, or other natural resource harmful or unsuitable for a specific purpose.

These are designed to prevent, reduce, or eliminate harmful substances.

A national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens.

Brackish Water

When dry and wet water mix.

When air and water vapor form brakes.

When salt water and water with NaCl is mixed together

When salt water and fresh water mix.

Week 14 Vocab Quiz

Week 14 Vocabulary Quiz

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