Fresh Water
Just like terrestrial biomes, this process is important to aquatic biomes but it can only be performed near the surface or in shallow water where the sunlight can penetrate.
What is photosynthesis?
The crawfish lives in this Zone of the lake.
What is Benthic Zone?
Photosynthesis takes place in this zone of the Lake, River found or Shallow Sea
What is the photic zone?
When large numbers of fish suffocate and die due to low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water, during the decomposition of algae.
Dead Zone
This is caused by access nitrogen and phosphorus from pesticides that runs off into our surface bodies of water. It lowers the oxygen levels in the water and results in dead zones.
What is an Algae Bloom.
This Biome has a coniferous/boreal forest.
What is the Taiga?
Bodies of still or standing fresh water surrounded by land.
What is a pond or lake?
Where freshwater and salt water meet?
What is Estuary?
Giant glowing squid are found here.
Twilight or Abyssal Zone
Crabs can survive in this zone because they have hard shells that protect them from the rays of the sun during low tide and claws that allow them to withstand the conditions of the zone.
What is Intertidal Zone?
Water falls as rain and penetrates a permeable surface such as soil. The water seeps through the ground and is stored as ground water in this.
What is Aquafer?
This Fish lives in both salt water and fresh water?
What is The Cat Fish
Evaporated Water, cools forming clouds of this.
What is Condensation?
Through Genetic Variation, species of Marine Fish have developed a trait that is crucial to their survival in the Twilight Zone. This ability allows the species to blend in, hide and illude predators and prey.
What is Glowing, Camouflage, or Bioluminescence?
Lilly Pads, frogs, snails, turtles and salamanders are found in this zone of fresh water biomes.
What is the littoral zone.
Another name for water that penetrates the soil and forms under ground reserves of Freshwater.
What is Ground Water
The method used to remove the salinity from salt water.
What is reverse osmosis.
This powerful greenhouse gas is released into the atmosphere when glaciers, ice caps and permafrost melt.
What is a Methane?
This marine biome receives no light and is home to some strange creatures.
Aphotic, Abyssal Zone or Twilight Zone
The area between high hide and low tide. The species that live in this zone are genetically designed to survive in this zone.
What is the Intertidal zone?
This Biome is the source of drinking water for humans.
What are fresh water biomes?
The Major source of drinking water in the world.
What is Fresh Water Biome..
The leading cause for carbon emissions contributing to Climate Change.
What is the combustion of Fossil Fuels?
Ponds, lakes, rivers and streams.
What are freshwater biomes?
This occurs when sea level rises causing salt water to flow over into our fresh water Rivers & Lakes
What is Salt Water Intrusion.
Fast flowing water that flows into an Ocean or a lake.
What is a River or Steam?
Their roots are partially submerged but they filter pollutants and prevent flooding, in a low lying area.
What is Mangrove Trees.
The Element C.
What is Carbon?
By 2052, It is estimated that this fossil fuel will be the first exhausted.
What is Oil?
This ecosystem is the most diverse Aquatic Biome on Earth.
What is a wetland, swamp, marsh or bosh?
This Sea Species is a mammal that breast feeds its offspring and evolved from a Terrestrial Species. Research shows that this mammal once walked the surface of the earth.
What is the Whale?
This species is a Carbon sink. They remove Carbon from the air and produce oxygen to breath.
What is the Tree?
Water evaporates from this part of the plants leaves.
What is the Stomata?
This Sea Species is a mammal that breast feeds its offspring. Research shows that this mammal once walked the surface of the earth.
What is A Whale?
This Element is released when weathering causes the break down of sedimentary rocks.
What is Phosphorus?