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| Study of living things that live in bodies of water and factors that impact their environment. |
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| Nonliving factors that impact an environment. |
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| Living factors that impact an environment. |
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| A habitat or environment in which plants, animals, and organisms occupy. |
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| Plant species that live and thrive within an ecosystem. |
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| Animal species that are found among an ecosystem. |
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| The environment or habit in which organisms live. |
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| Bodies of water that serves as communities for organisms. |
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| Ecosystem that consist of saline bodies of water. |
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| Aquatic ecosystem that has very low to zero salinity levels. |
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| The level of salt in bodies of water. |
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| Salt levels described as parts per million or trillion. |
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| Body of water that is a mixture of fresh and salt water. |
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| Depth levels that make up a body of water. |
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| Slightly salty water that is a mixture of river and salt water usually murky in color. |
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| Saturated land in which water covers the soil such as swamps, marshes, bogs. |
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| The beginning area identified where the pollution started. |
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| Pollution that is caused by multiple factors. |
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| Ponds, lakes, streams, rivers |
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| Water containing salt water such as ocean, coral reef, salt lakes, and briny water. |
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| Factors such as oxygen, pressure, temperature, pH, and light energy that impact an ecosystem. |
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| A body of water that is used as the main source of drinking water for organisms. |
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| Runoff of water that was formed from precipitation of the water cycle that flow into the crevices of the earth. |
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| Sub-zones including intertidal, epipelagic (euphotic), mesopelagic, abyssal and bathypelagic. |
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Sub-zones including littoral, limnetic, profundal and
benthic. |
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| Standing or slow moving water such as lakes or ponds. |
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| Flowing or fast moving water such as streams or rivers. |
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| Measure of acidity or alkalinity of water soluble substances potential of Hydrogen ranging 0-14. |
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| Substance with a pH of 0-6 and having a sharp tasting of sour. |
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| Substance with a pH of 8-14 having a bitter taste. |
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| Substance with a pH of 7 . |
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| The drainage area of land that separates waters flowing to different bodies of water such as rivers, basins, or seas. |
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| Federal law that regulates the discharge of pollutants the water initiated in 1972 and amended in 1977 and 1987. |
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Agriculture, biochemical, ground water, industrial, thermal, water such as oil or waste treatment.
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| Excessive richness of nutrients in bodies of water causing a dense growth of plant life and deaf of animals due to lack oxygen. |
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| Environmental conditions that restrict the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism causing competition in an ecosystem. |
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| Body temperature changes with the surrounding water temperatures changes. |
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| Physiological adaptation that regulate the intake of salt to allow organisms to survive in freshwater and salt water. |
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| Organisms with a back bone. |
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| Organisms lacking a back bone. |
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| Measurement of mass per volume |
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Maximum number of individuals in a particular population that an environment can support. |
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| Never ending recycling of water. |
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| Sensitive organisms whose presence help to identify water quality. |
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| The variety of life and species among an ecosystem. |
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| The preservation, protection, or restoration of natural environments or natural ecosystem. |
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| Microscopic animal like organisms like such as protozoan floating among a body of water. |
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| Microscopic plant life floating freely in a body of water. |
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| A change in which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment. |
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| Environmental protection agency that serves the purpose of enforcing relations for human health and the environment. |
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