Pond Animals
Pond Plants and Other Organisms
Energy
How Ponds are formed
Pond Characteristics
100
Name a bird that might be found by a pond.
Goose, duck, swan, kingfisher, etc.
100
What is this plant?
A Cattail
100
What do animals and people breathe in to help keep us alive?
Oxygen
100
This animal makes ponds by damaging streams with trees.
A beaver.
100
Is a pond a moving or still body of water?
Still
200
What is a turtle you might find at a pond?
Snapping, Painted, Box, etc.
200
A floating plant that frogs might rest on, and they can even have a flower.
Lily Pads or Water Lilys
200
What important energy source reaches to the bottom of shallow ponds and allows plants to grow?
The Sun
200
Why would people want to create their own ponds?
For farming
200
Ponds are more ______________ than lakes, which allows the plants on the bottom to grow.
Shallow
300
What frog makes a croaking sound from it's throat?
A bullfrog
300
What is a decomposer?
An organism that breaks down material, like other dead organisms.
300
What process uses carbon dioxide and water to create more oxygen and food for plants?
Photosynthesis
300
What type of natural disaster blocks a river or stream to form a pond?
A landslide
300
Do ponds need hot, moderate, or cold temperatures to support a whole ecosystem?
Moderate
400
Name two types of fish that might be found in a pond.
Carp, sunfish, perch, bass, pickerel, etc.
400
What are the two decomposers found in a pond?
Bacteria and Fungi
400
What two things to plants take in to produce oxygen and food?
Water and Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
400
What type of icy formation created ponds many years ago?
Glaciers
400
Name two of the four plant zones.
Floating, Deep Water, Submergent, Emergent
500
What are some common pond worms?
Leeches or earthworms
500
What is algal bloom?
When too much algae grows, taking oxygen and nutrients from the other plants.
500
What is the chart called that shows how animals and plants eat each other for energy?
Lily Pad - Tadpole - Fish - Bird
A food chain or a food web
500
The name for a bend in a river that becomes cut off to become a pond.
An oxbow.
500
This type of pond only exists in the spring when there is a lot of rain.
A vernal pond