AQUATIC SCIENCE
FALL SEMESTER FINAL REVIEW
First Semester Topics Covered
Safety
Careers
Properties of Water
Conservation
Water Cycle
Nutrient Cycles
Seafloor – structures and mapping
Rivers and Streams
Aquarium Set up and Maintenance
Watershed
Ponds and Lakes
Invasive Species
Wetlands and Coasts
Tides, Waves, Currents
Polar Seas
Coral Reefs
Ocean Zones
Deep Ocean
Safety:
1. What does the acronym PASS stand for?
2. What is a MSDS?
3. Know where all the safety supplies are located in the classroom
4. Who cleans up after you?
5. What is the difference between a Lock out and a Lock down?
Aquarium set up and maintenance (all questions assuming freshwater)
6. What materials/supplies do you need for a complete tank set up?
7. Can you use tap water in your aquarium? If not what do you need to do?
8. How many fish can you have in your tank?
9. How often should you feed your fish? How much?
10. When we water test what chemicals are we testing for?
11. How often should you do a 10% water change?
12. How often should you change your filter?
Careers:
13. Marine Mammal Scientist and Husbandry
14. Park Ranger
AQUATIC SCIENCE
FALL SEMESTER FINAL REVIEW
15. Stream Ecologist
16. Fisheries Biologist
17. Water Quality Regulator
18. Marine Biologist
Properties of Water
19. Adhesion
20. Cohesion
21. Surface Tension
22. Capillary action
23. Polarity
24. Specific Heat
Water Quality / Conservation
25. What is water quality?
26. How do you know if water quality is good?
27. What is conservation?
28. What percent of the earth is water?
29. What percent of water is accessible, drinkable water?
30. How are humans affecting water quality, be able to recognize examples.
CYCLES – Know the flow of the cycle and how it’s dealt with in an
aquarium.
31. Water Cycle,
32. Carbon Cycle
33. Nitrogen Cycle
AQUATIC SCIENCE
FALL SEMESTER FINAL REVIEW
34. Oxygen Cycle
35. Phosphorous Cycle
Rivers and Streams –
36. Define and label the parts of a stream (channel, pools, riffles, stream banks)
37. Define - Riparian Zone
38. Define - Flood plain
39. List the Stream orders and give an example of what kind of fish you would find there.
40. List adaptations of Plants to streams and Rivers
41. List adaptations of Animals to streams and rivers
42. What is an oxbow
Watersheds –
43. Define watershed
44. Be able to read a watershed map
Ponds and Lakes –
45. How are lakes and ponds formed?
46. What organism makes up the greatest amount of living material in a pond?
47. What role do plants have in a pond or lake?
48. What is lake turnover?
49. Sketch the stages of pond succession.
50. How are lakes and ponds similar? How are they different?
51. How do oxygen levels change in a pond or lake in a 24 hr period?
AQUATIC SCIENCE
FALL SEMESTER FINAL REVIEW
52. List some examples of animals you might find in a lake or pond, and it’s adaptation that makes it successful in it’s
ecosystem.
Invasive species
53. What is an invasive species?
54. Summarize the zebra mussel problem
Wetlands, Bays, Estuaries and Coasts
55. Define a wetland
56. List examples of plants and their adaptations to the wetlands.
57. List examples of Animals and their adaptations to the wetlands.
58. How would flooding affect a wetland?
59. List three important jobs of a wetland.
60. What does inflow bring into a bay/ estuary?
61. What doe the sediments of bays and estuaries have in it that feeds other life?
62. A bay or estuary is natures _____________
63. Seagrass act as a _____ -_____________
64. How do oysters help take care of pollution?
65. Be able to describe how salt and freshwater layer.
66. List the two types of coasts, with at least two examples of animals you would find their and their special adaptation
or behavior for that coast.
67. How do our wetlands, bays and estuaries and coasts affect our economy?
68. How many pounds of seafood do Texas estuaries produce?
Tides, Waves and Currents
69. What are tides?
70. What causes the tides?
71. What is a flood tide?
72. What is a neap tide?
AQUATIC SCIENCE
FALL SEMESTER FINAL REVIEW
73. What are three factors that affect the tide?
74. How does the tide affect us?
75. Be able to read a tide graph.
76. What is a wave?
77. How are waves formed?
78. What does wave energy do to a shore line?
79. What are the sources of currents on earth?
80. How is heat moved around the earth?
81. Major source of surface currents
82. What is the gyre?
83. What drives deep ocean currents?
84. Why does the water in the artic have a lower salinity?
Ocean Zones
85. Make a chart that shows the three zones we discussed with their characteristics (sunlight, depth, temperature,
salinity, and pressure)
Polar Seas
86. List some of the animals we discussed and their special adaptations to the polar seas.
87. Is the salinity higher or lower in the polar seas?
88. Describe the temperature and sunlight in the polls.
89. What is a Norwal?
90. How is climate change affecting the polar seas?
AQUATIC SCIENCE
FALL SEMESTER FINAL REVIEW
Coral Reefs
91. What kind of water is required for a coral reef?
92. Where can you find coral reefs?
93. What are the three types of reefs?
94. Is a Coral and animal or plant?
95. What does the coral secret to create the coral skeleton?
96. Besides corals what can you find on reefs? List a special adaptation of each animal that allows it to thrive on the
reef.
97. Define Symbiosis, give a specific example found in a coral reef habitat
Deep Ocean
1. What kind of organisms do you find in the “deep zone”?
2. IF there is no light and no photosynthesis, what do the animals feed on?
3. What are the different types of sight adaptations you see at these depths?
4. If the animal does not have sight how does it find its prey?
5. What adaptations allow animals to survive without expending excess energy?
6. What is bioluminescence? What are the three main uses of this?
7. Write the reaction that is responsible for bio-luminescence?
8. What percent of marine animals produce light?
9. How is bioluminescence being used, or how do we predict it will be used in the future?
10. Are there living creatures on hydrothermal vents? Give an example.
11. What do they eat?
12. What is the longest continuous mountain range on earth?
13. What percentage of the ocean floor has be explored?