Aquatic

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Lentic systems are?

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Standing water bodies.

Are all in the process of becoming a terrestrial habitat

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What defines a wetland

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-Hydric soils

-Soil water-saturated (anaerobic soils)

-Certain types of vegetation grow

-Standing water not necessarily present

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Hydric soils

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High organic content. May become anaerobic soil after inundation. Upper part of soil during growing season.

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3 types of wetlands

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Boga. Marshes. Swamps

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Bogs

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Acidic in nature. Mosses

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Marshes

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Grasses

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Swamps

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Trees

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Estuaries

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Marine wetland ecosystem.

Ocean meets land/ river

Shallow open water fringe with veg

Brakish water (fresh and salt)

Associated with mangroves

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Reservoirs

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Human-made

Lower residence time (few years)

More nutrients than a lake

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Lakes

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Naturally occuring

10-20 years residence

Glacier formed lakes: poor nutrients

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Residence time for

Glaciers

Snow

Soil moisture

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20-100 years

2-6 months

1-2 months

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Residence time Groundwater:shallow/ deep

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100-200 years

10,000 years

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Residence time:

Lake

Rivers

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50-100 years

2-6 months

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Lakes and reservoirs similarity

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Mixed by wind

Thermally stratified (3 zones)

Depths

More phytoplankton than flowing waters

Zooplankton dominant grazers

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Lotic systems

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Flowing water

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Lotic system facts

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Less stable: higher surface area to volume ratio

Lots of pariphyton and macrophytes

Macroinvertibrates- main grazers

1-12 1 smallest

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Primary productivity:

Ocean

Continental shelf

Estuary

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26%

6%

2%

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Primary productivity

Swamp/ marsh

Lakes/ rivers

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2%

.5%

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Primary productivity

Tropical rainforest

O. Ocean&c. Shelf

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24%

32%

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Define ecology

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Study of relationships between organisms, and between organisms and their environment.

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Limnology

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Study of inland waters

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Hydrologic cylce

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Movement of water between compartments at a global scale

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Compartment

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Anywhere water is stored during its transition through the hydrologic cycle

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Global water budget

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The rate of flux through these different compartments effects the amount of water available in usable form to humans. Unpredictable

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3 types of chemical bonds

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Hydrogen, covalent and ionic

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Ionic bonds (NaCl)

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Transfer of e- between atoms

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Covalent bonds (H2 (+) O(-))

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Strongest bond

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Hydrogen bond

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Weak bond between a postive hydrogen atom and another negative atom

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Water

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High boiling temp. Low freezing temp( 0 C)

Dense at 4C

Evapes at 100C

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Water has high heat _______, _______ and __________.

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Vaporization, capacity and fusion

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Water is __________ so it has a ______ _______ ______

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Cohesive

High surface tension

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Water _________ when frozen and becomes _______ ______

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Exoands

Less dense

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Water absorbs:

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Ultraviolet and infrared radiation

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Why are weathering of rocks an important impact on the geomorphotlogy of earth?

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Dissolution of ions from rocks makes nutrients more biologically available

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Viscosity

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The frictional force of a medium

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Inertia

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Resistance of a body to change its state of motion

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Viscosity and inertia can impact aquatic organisms by

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Feeding strategies

Body shape

Swimming speed

Habitat choice

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Reynolds number

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Ratio of inertial force and viscous force

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Reynodls number

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Fi/Fv

Fi:pSU^(2)

Fv: uSU/ L

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p & S

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Density of the fluid (weight/vL)

Surface area of the object ( distance squared)

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U, u & L

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Velocity of fluid moving past object ( distance/ time)

Dynamic viscosity of a fluid (constant specific temp)

Length of object

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Fi. Inerita _____ velocity density and surface area ____

Inertia ______ at smaller areas= ____ turbulence

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Increases, increases

Decreses, less

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Fv

Viscosity____ as velocity and s.a. _____.

Viscosity _____ as length _____.

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Increases, increases

Decreases and increases

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Reynolds number final equation

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PUl/u

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Re _____ at larger spatial scales

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Increases

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High re is associated with??

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Turbulent flow

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Low re associated with??

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Laminar (smoother) or brownian flow

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Brownian

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Smaller scale

Random movement of water (faster at higher temp)

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Laminar flow

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Larger scale

Unidirectional flow paths

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Turbulent flow

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Water highly mixed

Flow is multidirectional

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Small scales: ____ re=_____ turbulence

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Low =low

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Organisma can reduce the effect of turbulence by...

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Living near surfaces

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Cohesiveness

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Water is attracted to water

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Adhesive

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Water attracted to other objects

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Epilimnion

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Upper layer of water

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Metalimnion

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Sone of rapid temp change

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Hypolimnio

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Lower layer of water