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| How many stream and river does Pennsylvania have? |
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| How many lakes are in Pennsylvania? |
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| How many species of fish are in Pennsylvania? |
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| How many water insects species are in Pennsylvania? |
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| How many species of claims and mussels are there in Pennsylvania? |
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| How much money for water recreation is spent each year in Pennsylvania? |
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| What percentage of Pennsylvania's streams and rivers have been surveyed to assess water quality? |
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| Within the range of tolerance, is a range of what? |
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| Dissolved oxygen. Oxygen that has been dissolved into water. |
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| The measurement of hydrogen ions on the scale of 1 to 14 (with 1 being the most acidic and 14 being the most basic). |
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| If there is a change of 1 pH level, how much does the acidity change? What if the pH changed by 2? |
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| What is 1 drop of chocolate in 16 gallons of milk equal to? |
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| True or false: If the pH is as out of the fish's tolerance range by just 1 ppm., it could still survive. |
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| False. The fish would die. |
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| Fish have ____ ________ temperature requirements. |
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| True or false: Rapid changes in temperature can kill fish. |
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| Why do some fish depend on DO for their oxygen? |
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| Because they can't get the molecules though normal H2O. |
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| Why do fish need go shelter/habitat? |
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| To hide from predators, place to take a rest from the tide, food. |
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| What are the two major kinds of pollution? |
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| Agriculture runoff and abandoned mine drainage(AMD). |
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| What is the general order of links to the food chain? |
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| Plants, plankton, invertebrate, small fish, large fish, large predator. |
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| What is agriculture runoff? |
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| When the rain (or melting snow) carries soil, pesticides, and fertilizers into nearby waters, polluting it. |
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| Does cloudy water take more or less sunlight than clear water? |
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| What is silt on the bottom of a stream called? |
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| Does water that has been affected by agriculture runoff have a higher or lower DO than that river or stream would have without agriculture runoff? |
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| Lower. This effect can kill fish. |
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| What is abandoned mine drainage (AMD)? |
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| Runoff pollution from abandoned mines. |
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| How does acidity harm fish? |
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| Damages gills, decreases sodium in fishes blood, kills eggs and young. |
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| When the cloud's moisture mixes with sulfur or nitrogen in the air. |
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| Does acid rain lower or higher the level of pH in water? |
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| Before you can do anything that may harm waters of Pennsylvania, you must get a _______? |
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| How many permit applications does the Fish & Boating Commission get in a year? |
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| How much in fines has the Fish & Boating Commission collected in 1999? |
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