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Air pollution
Pollution found in the form of gasses or particulates
Anoxia
Oxygen depleted. Happens naturally... sometimes
Brackish
Water that is half salt water and half fresh water
Chesapeake 2000 Agreement
Calls for a 30% reduction in the rate of development by 2012
Development
Building around an area
Environmental stressors
Things that require something of the environment
Estuary
A body of water surrounded on three sides by land
Eutrophication
when algae blooms and kills lots of stuff
Forested edge
Steam banks that have woods on them
Hard submerged surfaces
Submerged surfaces that are hard...
Impervious cover
Surfaces that can not be penetrated
Landscape changes
Changes in an ecosystem
Legislative jurisdiction
Control over an area by the government
Marsh
an area that is wet, but not all water
Nekton
any animal that can freely swim around
Nutrients
Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Oxygen, other elements that are important for life
Open water
Water with no land near it
Overharvesting
Taking too much at a time
Oxygen Depletion
A loss of oxygen in an environment
Phytoplankton
Plankton that photosynthesizes
Plankton
Small, free-floating organisms
River
A big stream. Trees can not cover the middle
Salinity
Saltyness of the water
SAV
Submerges Aquatic Vegetation
Seasonality of the Bay
Summer- less oxygen
Winter- more oxygen

Cold water holds more oxygen than warm water
Sediment
Dirt in the water
Shallow water ecosystem
Ecosystems in shallow water
Stream
A small river
Swamp
Like a marsh
Toxic chemicals
Chemicals that are bad for the environment or people
Turbidity
Clearness of water
Watershed
The area around a river that drains into said river
wetland
Any land that has water around it
Zooplankton
Plankton that
What States are included in the Chesapeake Bay watershed?
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington D.C.