8. What are nutrients? Why are they important? 9. What is the theory of plate tectonics?
10. What is the benthic zone?
11. What is the pelagic zone?
12. Why is a wetland important for endangered species?
13. How are birds adapted to living in water ecosystems?
14. What is a watershed? Why is it important?
15. What water layers can be found in a lake?
16. What are the types of wetlands?
17. What is peat?
18. Why are amphibians special?
19. What is eutrophication and why is it increasing?
20. What animal can create habitat for itself?
21. What is a rocky intertidal zone? What animals can be found there? What makes it
unique?
22. What is a global ocean current? How does it move?
23. What is the area between high tide and low tide?
24. What is the dominant plant life in each the different wetland ecosystems?
25. What is a mud flat? What are its characteristics?
26. What is the relationship between depth and pressure?
27. What is the relationship between depth and temperature?
28. What is the boundary between warm and cold water called?
29. What is the boundary between fresh and salty water called?
30. What causes the tide?
31. What is zonation?
32. What types of challenges are there to living in the rocky intertidal? The sandy
beach?
33. What are the different types of pressure found in the ocean?
34. What is dessication?
35. What is the Coriolis effect?
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