Vocabulary
An area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlets that serve to feed or drain it.
What is a lake?
The name of a young lake.
What is Oligotrophic Lake?
The layer of the lake that receives sunlight- adequate for photosynthesis.
What is the Euphotic Zone?
The cold layer of water in the summer.
What is the hypolimnion?
In order to be classified as a lake, it must have an area of......
What is 10 acres?
All the waters on or near the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
What is hydrosphere?
Name given to an old aged lake.
What is Eutrophic Lake?
The zone that refers to the bottom of the lake.
What is the Benthic Zone?
The warm layer of water in the summer.
What is the epilimnion?
During what seasons is the oxygen content in the surface lake water the highest?
What are spring and summer?
The study of all the waters with regards to their measurement.
What is hydrography?
Middle-aged lake. Characteristics?
What is Mesotrophic Lake? - characteristics fall between young and old lakes
The zone near the shore that supports plant growth.
What is the Littoral Zone?
The region of rapid temperature change.
What is the metalimnion or the thermocline?
Two sources for oxygen increase.
What are atmospheric oxygen and photosynthesis?
Name given to moving bodies of freshwater and provide an example.
What are lotic bodies? Rivers, streams, and creeks.
Give three characteristics of an Oligotrophic Lake?
What are rocky shorelines, a limited amount of nutrients, low numbers of aquatic plant life, clear water?
The zone with no light for vegetation.
What is the Profundal Zone?
Refers to a change in the temperature at different depths in the lake, and is due to the change in water's density with temperature
What is thermal stratification?
Two sources for oxygen decrease.
What are respiration and decomposition?
The study of freshwater or saline waters contained within the continental boundaries- inland waters.
What is limnology?
Three characteristics of an Eutrophic Lake.
What are sandy beaches, gradual shorelines, a high amount of nutrients and a large number of aquatic plants, and low clarity water.
The open water zone with available sunlight for photosynthesis
What is the Limnetic Zone?
Explain what happens when a lake turns over in the fall.
During the fall, the warm surface water begins to cool. As the water cools, it becomes more dense, causing it to sink. This dense water forces the water of the hypolimnion to rise, "turning over" the layers
Name the fice characteristics of a lake that a limnologist would study?
What are.....
Landscape
Lake basin
Water temperature and oxygen levels
Lake productivity - plant life
Fish population