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Nutrients |
Substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and maintenance of life. |
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Reservior |
Large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply, |
Ex: Falls Lake |
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Minerals |
Substance that forms in nature, solid, has a definite chemical makeup and has a chystal structure |
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Dissolved Gasses |
Gasses that enter into a solution with a fluid and are either free nor carried along in a current gas. |
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Estuaries |
Tidal mouth of large river where tide meets the stream. |
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Marine Ecosystem |
Largest aquatic system on the planet, covering over 70% of earth's surface. |
Including ocean marshes, intertidal ecology estuaries, lagoons, coal reefs, deep and sea floor. |
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Upwelling |
Vertical movement of deep ways up to surface. |
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Buffer Zone |
Neutral area serving to conserve natural habitats where plants and animals can thrive. |
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Shore Ecosystem |
Ecosystems that ate part of a sea lake or river that are close to the shore |
Litteral Zone |
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Oceans ecosystems |
Living environment that is characterized by now salt water than fresh |
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Deep oceans Ecosystem |
Living environment in the lowest layer of ocean at a depth of 1800 meters |
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Vertical zonation patterns |
Intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore and seashore and seashore and sometimes refferd to as littoral zone, area above water at low tide and under water at high tide |
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Microbes |
A microscopic organism such as bacterium causing disease of fermentation |
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