Macroinvertebrates
A snail thats shell opens on the right.
What is a gilled snail?
An organ that absorbs oxygen from water.
What are gills?
A type of aquatic flowering plant that floats on water.
What is a water lily?
A forested wetland.
What is a swamp?
Fish of the same species in a group.
What is a school?
An organism with eight walking legs and two pinching claws.
What is a crayfish?
A special fin on some species of fish such as the catfish and bullhead.
What is a adipose fin?
An invasive species of aquatic plant that can grow up to twenty five feet tall and is also known as waterthyme.
What is a hydrilla?
A wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than woody plant species.
What is a marsh?
Zone of water at the bottom of deep, open water.
What is profundal?
A larva with six jointed legs, large pinching jaws, and feathery gills spiking out the sides of its body.
What is a dobsonfly (hellgrammite)?
The class which bony fish are classified in.
What is Osteichthyes?
An aquatic plant that grows on top of the water in clusters.
What is duckweed?
A distinct ecosystem that is flooded by water, either permanently or seasonally.
What is a wetland?
Non living factor in an enviroment.
What is abiotic?
An organism with an segmented body, a dark head, and two legs on each side of its body.
What is a midgefly?
An aquatic species with the scientific name of Alosa sapidissima and may have the best hearing out of any fish.
What is the American shad?
A perennial aquatic plant that grows completely under water and is native to most of North America.
What is Canadian waterweed?
A small arm of sea or a river.
What is an inlet?
Having to do with an environment at the bottom of a lake.
What is benthic?
An organism with a segmented body that is covered in thin bristles and is red in color.
What is an oligochaete worm?
The type of scales that cover the species in the class of Chondrichthyes.
What are placiod scales?
An aquatic plant with the scientific name Saurusus cernuus.
What is lizards tail?
A large Ecosystem composed of over 2,900 individual reefs.
What is the great barrier reef?
Animals that swim freely through the water.
What is nekton?