Pond Animals/Creatures
What is an example of a reptile that lives in a pond?
Turtle
What do plants need to survive?
Water, Sun, Soil
What is a consumer?
An organism that uses energy from the sun to make its own food
What is an organism?
Another name for a living thing
What is an example of fish that lives in a pond?
Catfish
Where does a shore plant grow?
On or near the edge of a pond.
What is a producer?
An organism that uses energy from the sun to make its own food
What is a community?
All of the populations in one area
What is an example of a bird that lives near a pond?
Duck
What is an example of a submergant plant?
Elodea
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain shows one path, a food web shows all the animals in the community
What are the four types of pond plants?
Emergant
Submergant
Floating
Shore
What is an example of a mammal that lives near a pond?
Otter
What is an example of a floating plant?
Floating White Lily
Complete the food chain.
Sun > Grass > ____ > Fox
Bunny
What are three things that make populations change?
new/many predators
weather
Disease
What is an example of a tiny creature in a pond? What does it do for the pond?
Planarian
It helps clean the pond.
What is an example of an emergant plant? Where does it grow?
Cattail/Bulrushes
It grows out of the water.
What does a food chain show?
The movement of energy through animals.
What are the four stages of ponds?
new/many predators
weather
Disease
How do ponds change overtime?
Deep hole with water
Plants and animals grow/live in pond
Many organisms die, fall to the bottom, make pond more shallow
Pond turns to marsh