Apes Unit 1 Study guide
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1. What do the following terms mean in relation to the water cycle (hydrologic cycle)?
Evaporation, Transpiration, Condensation, Precipitation (all forms of precipitation),
Infiltration, Percolation, and Runoff.
2. What do the following water quality terms mean: Hard water, soft water, turbid,
coliform, pH, salinity, brackish, dissolved oxygen (DO), storm water, and runoff.
3. Where do we get most of our drinking water from?
4. What do the following terms and their relationship to fresh water mean: Groundwater,
Water Table, Watershed, Infiltration, Aquifer, and Recharge Area?
5. What constitutes the greatest percentage of domestic use of water in the United
States?
6. What does the term desalination refer to?
7. What is the difference between green water and blue water?
8. What are the specific zones of lake stratification, trophic states and their
characteristics? (littoral zone, Epilimnion, Oligotrophic, Eutrophic)
9. What does eutrophication mean?
10. What is the relationship between phytoplankton and photosynthesis?
11. What is the role of phosphate in water pollution and algal blooms?
12. What is a dead zone?
13. What is the difference between a point source and a non-point source of pollution?
(Give two examples of each)
14. What causes wind?
15. How do clouds form?
16. What significant events occur within the following atmospheric levels: Trophosphere,
Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and Thermosphere.
17. What is the exact composition of the air we breathe?
18. What is the function of the ozone layer? What is the molecular formula of ozone?
19. What are the most abundant elements of life?
20. What is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and core?
21. Why is nitrogen important? What are the components of the nitrogen cycle?
22. What are the products and reactants of photosynthesis?
23. How does photosynthesis relate to respiration?
24. Why is nitrogen important to us? What are its constituents?
25. Define soil26. What are the 4 distinct parts of soil?
27. List some reasons why soil is important to the environment.
28. How is the parent material of soil formed?
29. List some examples of
30. Physical weathering31. Chemical weathering32. Describe different soil properties:
TextureStructureFriabilityPorosityPermeabilitypHColor33. Describe the various soil horizons:
O-horizonA-horizonB-horizonC-horizon34. Describe erosion and its importance to the environment.
35. Describe various methods of erosion control.
36. What is the difference between macronutrients and micronutrients? Give examples of
each.
37. What are organic/inorganic fertilizers? Give benefits and costs of each.
38. What is the Clean Water Act?
39. What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
40. What is the Water Quality Act?