It's just like Rocks and Minerals replacing Fossils. They're both Earth Science ID events, but they're not that similar. There's some overlap (you have to know a little bit about rocks for Fossils), but fossils focuses on organisms while R&M focuses on rocks and minerals._anatomy_ wrote:I understand that, but water quality relates to just water, while ecology covers a wider range. Still, I see how its related. Ya, quizbowl u r rite, water quality is related to ecology but only in certain topics.quizbowl wrote:Do you realize that Water Quality, save the identification of macroinvertebrates, the building of a salinometer and water remediation, is basically the ecology of estuaries? If not, then you are in the wrong event._anatomy_ wrote:i am probably going to do water quality next year
but i still don't see how it is anything like ecology
Water Quality is in a similar situation. It's not quite Ecology; it focuses more on water testing and macroinvertebrates and pollution. But things still overlap, like some basic ecological principles. Events get replaced by events that are different. If they were the same, it wouldn't be much of a replacement.