These are shallow bodies of water surrounded by land on all sides.
What is a pond?
100
These types of pond plants grow in water but pierce the surface so that it is in the air.
What is emergent?
100
Organisms adjust to the conditions in their environment by their physical features and behaviors in order to survive.
What is adaptation?
100
An organism that only eats plants.
What are herbivores?
100
A scientist who studies ecosystems.
What is an ecologist?
200
Ponds are more _________ than lakes making it possible for plants grow.
What is shallow?
200
Plants that may not be rooted in the ground, but float on the water, or rooted in the ground but have leaves that float on the water.
What is floating?
200
The organism that has tiny hairs covering its legs, which prevents it from breaking through the surface of the water.
What is a water strider?
200
These organisms must eat other organisms in order to obtain energy.
What are consumers?
200
These organisms are typically found on the bottom of the food chain and use photosynthesis to obtain their energy.
What are producers?
300
Ponds are examples of these: communities of living and non-living things.
What is an ecosystem?
300
Plant stems and leaves grow entirely underwater.
What is submersed?
300
An organism that uses its long, sticky tongue to catch its prey.
What is a frog?
300
It is a model using arrows that shows how energy is passed, in the form of food, from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
300
A single-celled organism whose name means "first animal."
What is a protozoa?
400
To tell the age of a pond, just look at the bottom. Ponds with these types of characteristics are usually older.
What is muddy bottoms and lots of plants?
400
A plant that has a long, flexible stem and round shaped leaf that allows it to stay afloat on the water's surface tension. This is important to the plants survival because it must receive adequate sunshine for photosynthesis.
What are water lilies?
400
An organism that moves slowly on land but swims quickly underwater to catch fish, frogs, and other small animals for food.
What is a turtle?
400
An organism that breaks down dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
The famous writer who lived on the northern shore of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts for two years starting in the summer of 1845.
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
500
These are the four distinct habitats in a pond.
What is water's edge, surface water, open water, and the bottom?
500
This is a very flexible plant and is completely supported by the water. Unlike trees or other flowers, it does not have a solid shape. If you were to take it out of water, it would hang loosely and limp in your hand. This is helps it survive in the pond habitat because it is completely submerged in the water and must be able to move when the water moves.
What is Pondweed?
500
The organism that uses its legs like tiny oars, which help it swim quickly.
What is a water boatman?
500
Hydras are microscopic organisms that feed on one-celled animals, worms, and insects and are examples of these special types of consumers.