Lake Zones
This is the shallow lake zone that begins at the shoreline and contains rooted plants like cattails and pond lilies
What is the littoral zone?
Name one common use of a farm pond
What are livestock watering, irrigation, fish production, wildlife, recreation, or fire protection?
This type of pond is created by digging a pit below the surrounding ground level.
What is an excavated pond?
This pond-management practice helps control unwanted aquatic plants.
What is vegetation control?
This fish has a hand- or pan-shaped body and a black earflap.
What is the Bluegill?
This lake zone has no rooted vegetation but contains phytoplankton and fish.
What is the limnetic zone?
According to the USDA information in the slideshow, a family farm pond should ideally be smaller than this size.
What is two acres?
This type of pond holds water behind an embankment or dam built across a watercourse.
What is an embankment pond?
This aquatic plant-control method uses another living organism, either a plant or animal.
What is biological control?
This fish is also called paper mouth, calico, or speckled perch
What is the Black Crappie?
This is the bottom zone of a lake where photosynthesis does not take place.
What is the profundal zone?
When planning a new pond, management focuses on its care and this.
What is development?
According to the slideshow, an embankment pond should be at least this deep.
What is six feet?
This fish-sampling method uses a fishing rod and reel to catch fish and monitor the population.
What is angling?
This is the only trout native to Western North Carolina.
What is the Brook Trout?
In which lake zone does photosynthesis take place on the lake floor because sunlight reaches the bottom?
What is the littoral zone?
When renovating an existing pond, management focuses on correcting these.
What are existing problems?
This should surround an embankment pond to help protect it.
What is a permanent vegetation buffer strip?
Fertilizing a pond increases the production of this microscopic food source that fish
What is plankton?
This trout has a broad pink or bright-red band running along its sides from the gill cover to the tail.
What is the Rainbow Trout?
This lake zone is described as the warmest in winter and coolest in summer.
What is the profundal zone?
This type of pond management focuses on correcting problems that already exist in an established pond.
What is existing-pond management?
Trees and shrubs should not be planted on this part of a pond because their roots can weaken it.
What is the dam?
Name the pH range identified in the slideshow as best for fish.
What is 6.5 to 9.0?
This bass is found in mountain and foothill streams, is known for fighting and leaping, and is usually 10–20 inches long.
What is the Smallmouth Bass?