Ponds
All ponds are open bodies of this
Fresh water surrounded by land
Predator fish hide in plants to find
Prey
Area closest to the shore
Littoral zone
Cattails are this kind of plant
Emergent
Makes a duck quacking sound
Wood frog
Pond waters are
Shallow
Lake waters are
Very deep
Deeper water where sunlight can’t reach
Profundal zone
Broad, flat-leafed plants like water lilies
Floating
This frog has sticky pads on their toes
Spring Peeper or Eastern Gray Treefrog
Plants convert sun energy into food
Photosynthesis
Rooted plants grow here
Shoreline
Open surface away from the shore
Limnetic zone
Pondweed is a type of this
Submersed plant
Frogs hibernate here
Beneath mud or leaves at the bottom of a stream or pond
Mussels are a type of
Filter feeder
Plants and this are the base of the food chain
Algea
Bottom where a lot of decomposition happens
Benthic zone
Plants completely covered in water
Submersed
How are frogs environmental indicators
They tell us how healthy our environment is
I have still or standing water so I am a ____ ecosystem
Lentic
Aquatic plants provide(give 2 answers)
Produce oxygen, provide food, provide a habitat, stabilize a shoreline
Clams, shrimp and lobster live in this zone
Profundal zone
Plants rooted at the bottom of the pond
Emergent
Sounds are boosted by this
Vocal sac