Estuaries
They are important environments because they prevent this.
What is flooding
The definition of a lentic system is.....
standing water like lakes and ponds.
The name for factors in an environment that are not living.
What is abiotic?
These are examples of lotic systems.......
What are rivers, streams and creeks?
This is the name for the bottom of the ocean.
What is the abyssal plain?
This decreases salinity at times.
Flooding from inland storms.
These live on the surface of lentic water.
What is algae?
Name for an organism that eats other organism.
What is a consumer?
This is why there is more oxygen in young rivers than old rivers.
What are quickly moving waters?
This part of the ocean covers the continental shelf and has light filtering through to it.
What is the photic zone?
The two types of water that meet here are.....
salt water and fresh water
The process whereby algae make food is called.....
What is photosynthesis?
This is the name of an organism that creates its own food.
What is a producer?
Two ways animals survive in lotic systems are......
What is be able to cling to rocks or be a strong swimmer?
Organisms in this part of the marine system are covered with water some of the time, but not all of the time.
What is the intertidal zone?
This increases salinity on a daily basis.
What is high tide?
Animals that eat dead things are called.....
What are scavengers?
The measure of how much salt is in the water.
What is salinity?
This lotic system has clear water and gets more sunlight.
What is a young river?
This is the name for the deepest part of the ocean which receives no light.
what is the aphotic zone?
The name of the largest estuary in the United States....
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
The zone where scavengers live is called.....
The Benthic zone.
This is the zone that is the same in lentic systems and marine systems.
What is the benthic zone?
Young rivers have more of these than old rivers.
What are energy producers?
This zone covers the continental shelf.
What is the neritic zone?