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River on the Rise: The Science of Watersheds
Are You Saturated? (Free Sample Interactive)
Vocabulary and Topics
National Science Standards

 

 

Vocabulary and Topics

Subject Areas:

Ecology
Ecosystem Structure
Aquatic ecosystems
Ponds and Lakes
Flowing Waters
Managing Human Affected Ecosystems
Sampling techniques
Conservation science

Vocabulary:

Amphibian
Benthic
Clean Water Act
Consumptive
Desiccation
Diffusion
Ecosystem
Endangered Species Act
Erosion
Estuary
Flotsam

Fragment
Gills
Habitat
Hibernate
Hydro-Periods
Hydropower
Impermeable
Indicator species
Metamorphosis
Nomograph
Permeable
Renewable

Run-off
Salinity
Saturation
Secchi disk
Solubility
Spermatophore
Steward
Tributary
Turbidity
Vernal pool
Watershed

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