Layers of a Pond/Lake
What's the deepest and darkest layer of a Lake/Pond
The Benthic Zone
Which is bigger than the other?
Lake
What are the 3 types of wetlands?
Bogs, Marshes, Swamps
Which Zone has the most nutrients?
The littoral zone
Emergent Plants
How many layers does a lake/pond have?
4
What makes something a wetland?
A completely saturated area full of vegetation.
What is the word meaning the ecosystem has very high nutrients?
Eutrophic
The Limnetic Zone is ________ meaning it has sun.
Photic
What are the layers of a pond/lake?
Littoral, Limnetic, Profundal, and Benthic
Low lying treeless areas are ________?
Marshes
What is the word meaning that the ecosystem has very low nutrients?
oligatrophic
Nekton does not belong to which zone?
The Benthic Zone
How are lakes and ponds filled with water?
They are filled naturally
_____ Has lots of trees?
Swamps
Animals in the benthic zone get nutrients in the bentic zone by _________?
Decomposing
The profundal zone is _______ ?
Aphotic
What kind of plankton is in the limnetic zone?
phytoplankton
_______ is very acidic and makes maps?
Bogs
What is the relationship between turbidity and nutrients?
The more nutrients, the higher the turbidity.