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35 Cards in this Set
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Air pollution
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Pollution found in the form of gasses or particulates
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Anoxia
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Oxygen depleted. Happens naturally... sometimes
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Brackish
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Water that is half salt water and half fresh water
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Chesapeake 2000 Agreement
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Calls for a 30% reduction in the rate of development by 2012
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Development
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Building around an area
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Environmental stressors
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Things that require something of the environment
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Estuary
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A body of water surrounded on three sides by land
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Eutrophication
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when algae blooms and kills lots of stuff
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Forested edge
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Steam banks that have woods on them
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Hard submerged surfaces
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Submerged surfaces that are hard...
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Impervious cover
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Surfaces that can not be penetrated
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Landscape changes
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Changes in an ecosystem
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Legislative jurisdiction
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Control over an area by the government
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Marsh
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an area that is wet, but not all water
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Nekton
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any animal that can freely swim around
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Nutrients
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Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Oxygen, other elements that are important for life
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Open water
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Water with no land near it
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Overharvesting
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Taking too much at a time
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Oxygen Depletion
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A loss of oxygen in an environment
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Phytoplankton
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Plankton that photosynthesizes
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Plankton
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Small, free-floating organisms
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River
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A big stream. Trees can not cover the middle
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Salinity
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Saltyness of the water
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SAV
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Submerges Aquatic Vegetation
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Seasonality of the Bay
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Summer- less oxygen
Winter- more oxygen Cold water holds more oxygen than warm water |
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Sediment
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Dirt in the water
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Shallow water ecosystem
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Ecosystems in shallow water
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Stream
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A small river
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Swamp
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Like a marsh
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Toxic chemicals
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Chemicals that are bad for the environment or people
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Turbidity
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Clearness of water
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Watershed
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The area around a river that drains into said river
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wetland
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Any land that has water around it
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Zooplankton
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Plankton that
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What States are included in the Chesapeake Bay watershed?
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Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington D.C.
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