Flach Cards Collections
limnology
What are the 6 major stressors on aquatic systems?, How does climate change affect lakes?, How do humans affect lakes?, Why is water so unique?, What is the significance of water's polarity?, What is the significant of water's specific heat?, Why can water take in or give off a lot of heat without changing temperature?, Why is the thermal stability of water important to aquatic organisms?, Why does ice float? Why is this important to lakes?, How does salt affect water? Why do we add salt to boiling water or to icy roads?, Describe the viscosity of water and why it is the way it is., Describe the solvent properties of water., Describe the surface tension of water and the reasoning behind it., What is the cohesion-adhesion relationship of hydrophobic surfaces?, What is the cohesion-adhesion relationship of hydrophilic surfaces?
2012-02-13 • 97 Cards
Great Lakes: Worth Fighting For
Batlle for Fisher Creek, Battle of Fisher Creek, Beluga Whale, beluga whale -Canaries of the Sea, Cement plant, Cement Plant, clouded in grey-Great Lakes Delta, coastline, emissions, environmentalist, fresh water, industries, pcb, pollution, St. Lawrence River
2011-04-28 • 17 Cards
US: Great Lakes States
Abraham Lincoln, Angle Inlet, Badger State, Battle Creek, Buckeye State, Chicago, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Cleveland, Columbus, corn, manufacturing, corn, steel, daylight savings time, Detroit, Gerald Ford, Great Lakes State, Wolverine State
2011-04-28 • 49 Cards
Life in the Water--> Lakes
4 degrees celsius, a common bog fish, A lake is stratified in, Benthic invertebrate biomassis high and domintaed by species tolerant of warm temperatures and low oxygen in, common lake fish, Cool tempertaure and high oxygen concentrations provide a suitable environment for fish such as trout and whitefish in, Density in lake water keeps the layers, eutrophic lakes are, High availability of nutrients, especially phosphorus and nitrogen, support high densities of phyto-plnkton and vascular aquatic plants in, In November and March,, invertebrate species requiring high oxygen concentrations are dominant in the benthic fauna of, lake nutrients, Lake oxygen levels, Lake temperatures, Lake zones from shore outward
2011-04-28 • 40 Cards
Lakes and Plateaus of South America
Aconcagua, Andes, Antiplano, Atacama Desert, Caribbean Sea, Lake Titcaca, Lianos, Pacific ocean, Straight of Magellan, Tierre de Fuego
2011-04-28 • 10 Cards
Great Lakes Module
biochemist, biologist, biology, Canadian Shield, chemistry, fossils, Great Lakes, Greenland, hypothesis, Ice Age, invasive species, laboratory, phosphorous, zebra mussels
2011-04-28 • 14 Cards
Lakes and Ponds
Benthic Zone, Limnetic Zone, Littoral Zone, Ponds and Lakes, River, What do ridges do?, What kind of animals live in the benthic zone?, What kind of animals live in the Limnetic?, What kind of animals live in the Littoral Zone?, When do ponds and lakes form?
2011-04-28 • 10 Cards
Dene Lakes/Rivers
Bilhk'a, Binchekoh, bun, Chuzghun, Duzdlikoh, Dzinghubun, dzulh, Khelhghubun, Lhtakoh, Nadobun, Nak'al, Nak'albun, Nak'alkoh, Nichahkoh, noo
2011-04-28 • 21 Cards
Rivers, Lakes, and Wetlands Ecology 1
(bicarbonate and hydrogen ion), (carbon dioxide+water), (carbonate and 2 hydrogen ions), (carbonic acid), [TIN]=, 1. Dissolved ionic PO4--, 1. Liquid despite molar weight, 1% level, 2 ways material associates with water, 2 ways to describe AMOUNTS of suspended or dissolved material, 2. Inorganic metaphosphates, 2. super solvent, 3 major classes of photosynthetic pigments/ characteristic absorption spectrum, 3. liquid water has high specific heat, 3. Organic P (DOP, POP)
2011-04-28 • 227 Cards
Rivers and Lakes
barge, basin, border, canyon, channel, dam, delta, downstream, endangered, floodplain, freshwater, glacier, lake, meanders, mouth
2011-04-28 • 20 Cards
Dyanmic Planet: Lakes and Rivers - vocab 1
abrasion, alluvial fan, bar, base level, bed load, braided stream, delta, dendritic pattern, discharge, dissolved load, distributary, drainage basin, drainage divide, drainage pattern, flood plain
2011-04-28 • 42 Cards
states/capitals-great lakes
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin
2011-04-28 • 6 Cards
Canada and the Great Lakes
Definition of Provinces, Definition of Regionalism, Humid Continental means:, Importance of Toronto:, Marine west coast, Montreal, Name the Great Lakes, Nunavut, Ottawa, Quebec, Subarctic means:, Tundra
2011-04-28 • 12 Cards
eng 11 inter lakes 1/8/9
Abortive, acute, affront, amorphous, apathetic, assail, banns, bantering, bombastic, complacency, contemptuous, contiguous, corroborate, deferred, defunct
2011-04-28 • 60 Cards
Mountains, Lakes, preps.
an, angeln, auf, das Boot, das Hallenbad, das Meer, der Berg, der Sandstrand, der See, die Ecke, die Sauna, die See, in, nach, neben
2011-04-28 • 20 Cards