Vocabulary
Lake Zones
Freshwater Ecosystems
Throwback Vocabulary
100

Wetland

an area of land that is periodically underwater or whose soil contains a great deal of moisture

100

Which zone has sunlight reach the bottom of it?

Littoral Zone

100

Which freshwater ecosystem is broken into 3 zones?

Lakes

100

Biotic

Living Factors in an environment 

200

A wetland ecosystem in which shrubs and trees grow

Swamp

200

Which lake zone provides nutrients for plants near the lake shore.

Littoral Zone.

200

Which lake zone is the receives no sunlight?

The deep-water zone

200

A chart which shows how energy decreases in an Environment.

Energy Pyramid

300

Which is the shallowest lake zone

Littoral Zone

300

True or False

The open-water zone typically has animals which need little sunlight like catfish, carp, worms, etc.

False

300

Which wetland ecosystem is categorized by its ability to grow trees and bushes.

Swamps.

300

A group of organisms of the same species living within the same environment are known as what?

Population

400

Which lake zone has bass and trout 

Open water Zone

400

Which Zone of a lake never receives any sunlight?

Deep-Water Zone

400

What plants are common in a marsh?

Grasses, reeds, bulrushes, and wild rice.

400

A series of foodchains interconnected with one another form what?

A food web

500

Name three wetland ecosystems

Bogs, Swamps, and Marshes

500

Which lake zone is only as deep as light can reach?

Open-Water Zone

500

What is order does a lake become a forest?

Lake, wetland, swamp, forest.

500

This Vocabulary word consists of all biotic and abiotic factors

Ecosystems

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