Ponds and Lakes
Ponds and lakes are divided into this many zones.
What are 3 zones?
Bodies of flowing water moving in one direction
What is a Stream and/or River?
The ocean is divided up into this many zones
What are 3 zones?
An underwater structure (ridge of rock) formed by coral polyps, tiny animals that live in colonies.
What is the Coral Reef?
This symbiotic relationship in the Great Barrier Reef is seen in the movie Nemo between Marlin/Nemo and where they live.
What is a clown fish and a sea
anemone?
This zone is by the shore
What is the Littoral Zone?
Temperature is cooler at the _________ than it is at the mouth.
What is the source?
The oceans zones are called:
There are _____ types of Coral Reefs?
What is 3?
This type of animal is the only animal in which the father gives birth.
What is the Seahorse?
This zone has the most macroscopic plants
What is the Littoral Zone?
Towards the middle part of the stream/river, the width ______________.
What is increases?
The Pelagic Zone is also known as:
What is the Open Ocean?
What is Fringing, Barrier and Atolls?
This is formed where rivers (freshwater) meet the sea (saltwater)
What is an estuary?
Between the two layers is a narrow zone called the ____________where the temperature of the water changes rapidly with depth.
What is the Thermocline?
Less light means lower ___________ levels.
What is oxygen?
The Benthic Zone is never exposed to:
What is air?
This type of coral reef is formed on submerged mud banks or volcano craters.
What is Atoll Coral Reef?
The Great Barrier Reef is located:
What is off the coast of Australia?
Oxygen levels drop and some plants and animals may die is called.
What is the "Winterkill"?
Fish that require less oxygen, such as _________ and carp, can be found in streams and rivers.
What is catfish?
The Intertidal zone is layered:
What is vertically?
Submerged platforms of living coral extending from the shore into the sea.
What are Fringing Reefs?
This type of fish appear in Finding Nemo when Marlin and Dory believed that this fish's light was just floating in the water.
What is an angular fish?