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Lakes and Ponds
Marshes
swamps
rivers
estuarys
100
This part of the pond is where the nutrients are rich and life is diverse and abundant.
What is littoral zone?
100
where marshes form.
What is low,flat lands with little water movement?
100
Where swamps occur.
What is on flat,poorly drained land, often near streams?
100
As a river flows down a river it becomes _______?
What is warmer, wider,and slower.
100
Nutrients and and mineral rich mud ____ into the ocean
What is sink?
200
An increase in the amount of nutrients in an aquatic ecosystem.
What is eutrophication?
200
definition of marshes.
What is a type of wetland that contains "non-woody" plants?
200
Factors that determine what trees and bushes grow where.
What is salinity.
200
People pollute rivers by____?
What is dumping waste?
200
grows in the mineral rich mud from the rivers
What is marsh grass
300
The bottom of a lake/pond.
What is the benthic zone?
300
largest fresh water wetland/marsh.
What is the Florida Everglades?
300
The most dominate predator in swamps.
What is The American Alligator?
300
A river ____ with land?
What is changes?
300
Definition of an estuary.
What is an area in which rivers and oceans meet?
400
The way phytoplankton make their food.
What is photosynthesis?
400
Marshes are mostly____ plants then woody plants.
What is herbaceous?
400
The two types of swamps.
What is swamp forest and shrub swamps?
400
Where most rivers originate.
What is snow melt in mountains.
400
estuaries are polluted by humans.
What is Waste landfills/ runoff.
500
The way decomposers get their food in lakes/ponds.
What is dead animals and plants that fall to the benthic zone?
500
Characteristics of a marsh.
What is nutrient rich and contains plants, numerous types of decomposers and scavengers?
500
The largest swamp on the world.
What is The Sundarbans Swamp Delta?
500
____ alter the ecosystems in and around a river.
What is dams?
500
functions of a estuary.
What is filtration, ecosystem,and nutrients provider.