Review Sheet for the Water Cycle, Properties, and Storage

REVIEW SHEET FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE MIDTERM

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TERMS:

Adhesion –

Aquifer –

Artesian Well –

Capillarity –

Cohesion –

Condensation –

Desalination –

Evaporation –

Groundwater –

Infiltration/Percoloation –

Polarity –

Precipitation –

Recharge Zone –

Runoff –

Saltwater Intrusion –

Saturated Zone –

Spring –

Surface Tension –

Surface Water –

Transpiration –

Unsaturated Zone –

Water Table –

Watershed –

Algal Blooms –

Artificial Eutrophication –

Biological Magnification and examples –

Biological Oxygen Demand –

Dissolved Oxygen –

Ecology –

Macroinvertebrates –

Nitrates and Phosphates –

Oligotrophic –

pH –

pH scale –

Thermal Pollution –

Turbidity –

Water Pollution –

Benthos and examples –

Bog and associated species –

Conservation –

Estuary and associated species –

Habitat –

Lake –

Marsh and associated species –

Nekton and examples –

Plankton –

Preservation –

Swamp and associated species –

Thermocline –

Vernal Pools –

Wetlands –

Biotic Potential –

Bottleneck effect and Examples –

Carrying Capacity –

Commensalism and examples –

Community –

Competition and examples –

Dispersion –

Dynamic Equilibrium –

Emigration –

Environmental Resistance –

Exponential Growth –

Fecundity –

Fertility –

Founder Effect and examples –

Genetic Drift –

Growth Rate –

Immigration –

Interspecific Interactions –

Intraspecific Interactions –

Limiting Factors –

Logistic Growth –

Mutualism and examples –

Niche –

Overshoot –

Parasitism and examples –

Population –

Population Density –

Reproductive Potential –

Symbiosis –

Biodiversity –

Corridor –

Crepuscular –

Critical Habitat –

Diurnal –

Domestication –

Ecological Hot Spot –

Ecological Footprint –

Ecotone –

Endangered Species –

Endemic –

Extinction –

Extirpated –

Feral –

Home Range –

Indicators –

Invasive Species –

Keystone Species –

Monoculture –

Native species –

Nocturnal –

Nonrenewable Resource –

Range –

Renewable Resource –

Territory –

Threatened Species –

Wilderness –

Wildlife Management–

CONCEPTS:

Describe water’s unique properties and give examples. Explain how polarity, cohesion, and hydrogen bonds influence properties such as capillarity, surface tension, high specific heat, acting as a solvent, etc.

Summarize ways to conserve water. Describe the effectiveness and costs of these actions.

Diagrams of the water cycle and an aquifer

Summarize the problems that arose with the Ogallala aquifer. What are the ramifications?

What practices have perpetuated the problem? Describe the sustainable solutions.

Explain how artificial eutrophication can occur and the detrimental impacts it has on aquatic ecosystems.

Describe long-term solutions that are effective and economical.

Describe the steps involved the treatment of sewage water. Explain the significance of each step.

Explain the various relationships between dissolved oxygen, temperature, nitrates and phosphates,

biochemical oxygen demand, and turbidity.

Explain the role of using macroinvertebrates as an indicator of water quality in streams.

Be able to use specific examples.

Graphs of wildlife populations. Rules for making graphs and interpreting them.

Be able to summarize the levels of pH, DO, BOD, phosphates, and temperature for both healthy

and unhealthy freshwater ecosystems.

Compare and contrast Point (Source) Pollution to Nonpoint (Source) Pollution

Lake Zones and Diagrams (littoral zone, limnetic zone, profundal zone, benthic zone, etc.) –

Describe the benefits of wetlands to humans and wildlife –

Describe the threats to wetlands - (hydrologic alterations, pollution inputs, vegetation damage)

Compare and contrast the following terms as they relate to wetlands:

creation, restoration, enhancement, mitigation

Water Quality Index -

Q Value -

Weighting -

Adjusting for Missing Data –

Name and explain the effects of several laws on wildlife management in the U.S.

Describe how, when, and why to use different sampling techniques to estimate population sizes

Describe Predator – Prey cycles and adaptations

Compare and contrast density-dependent factors to density-independent factors

Questions from Wolf Relocation Challenge worksheet

Arguments for and against reintroducing wolves into Yellowstone (Where Should the Wolves Roam?)

Describe the characteristics of invasive plants and explain why invasive species are such a problem.

Describe the effectiveness of various control methods (including biological controls)

Name and describe examples that demonstrate the importance of biodiversity.

Name and describe the major threats to biodiversity.