Water Quality Review

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Water Quality Review

• Lets see how you do

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Warm Up Questions

• What is an estuary?
• What are the 3 Living Things of the Salt Marsh
  that help determine water quality?
• What are the 5 Non-Living Things of the Slat
  Marsh that help us to determine the health?

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Question 1

• What is a macroinvertebrate?

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Questions 2 - 4

• 2 What is an example of a macroinvertebrate
  that is very sensitive to pollution?
• 3 What is an example of a macroinvertebrate
  that is somewhat sensitive to pollution?
• 4 What is an example of a macroinvertebrate
  that is very tolerant to pollution?

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Question 5

• 5 What are the 2 types of adaptations?

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Question 6

• 6 What plant is known as the bully of the salt
  marsh because it is very invasive and crowds out
  native plants?

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Question 7

• 7 What are the special root systems of some
  plants that help it to reproduce quickly and
  spread throughout the marsh?

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Questions 8 - 10

• 8 What does pH measure?
• 9 What pH reading is neutral?
• 10 What are 3 things that affect pH readings?

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Question 11

• What is turbidity?

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Question 12 - 13

• 12 What is salinity?
• 13 What do we mean by brackish water?

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Question 14

• What is DO?

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Question 15

• Colder water or warmer water Which one can hold
  more Dissolved Oxygen?

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Question 16

• What are some things or situations that add more
  DO to the water?

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Question 17

• Heres a hard oneWhat is known as the battery of
  our wetland?
• Heres a hint It begins with the letters De

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Question 18

• What are 2 special adaptations of a fish that you
  would find in the wetland?

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Question 19

• What are 3 reasons that wetlands are so wonderful
  and amazing?

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Question 20

• What are 3 ways that our wetlands are being
  destroyed? ?