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Definitions
Definitions
What is a wetland?
What is a watershed?
What is a tributary?
What is stormwater?
What is an ecosystem?
What is a habitat?
What is pollution?
What is eutrophication?
What is a wetland?
A low area were the land is saturated with water
What is a watershed?
The whole region that contributes to the supply of a river
or lake.
What is a tributary?
A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of
water.
What is stormwater?
Runoff from land and impervious areas such as paved streets,
parking lots, and building rooftops during rainfall and snow
events.
What is an ecosystem?
A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms
with their physical environment.
What is a habitat?
The type of environment in which an organism or group normally
lives or occurs.
What is pollution?
The act or process of polluting, especially the contamination
of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful
substances.
What is eutrophication?
The process by which a body of water becomes enriched in dissolved
nutrients that stimulate the growth of aquatic plant life
usually resulting in the depletion of dissolved oxygen.
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