The process by which green plants make food by combining carbon dioxide and water using energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
100
Peat-filled areas that receive their water and nutrients from rainfall. This type of wetland is created when decaying moss sinks to the bottom of a lake or pond and over time the water seeps out, leaving an area of wet, spongy ground.
What is a bog?
100
Broad-leafed Cattail
What is a producer?
100
Beetles
What is the floating zone?
200
A consumer that eats animals.
What is a carnivore?
200
A physical or behavioural feature of an organism that increases its chance of survival.
What is adaptation?
200
Receives most of its water from groundwater.
What is a Fen?
200
Mayfly Nymph
What is a consumer?
200
Waterweed
What is the submergent zone?
300
A consumer that eats both animals and plants.
What is an omnivore?
300
The place where an animal and plant community naturally occur.
What is a habitat?
300
Low-lyng soft, wet land sometimes covered by water; groundwater and surface water; found throughout Alberta.
What is a marsh?
300
Bacteria
What is a decomposer?
300
Water Striders
What is the emergent zone?
400
Interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
400
The gradual wearing away of landforms or soil due to glaciers, water or wind.
What is erosion?
400
Dense vegetation, including trees; water source is seasonal flooding; not common in Alberta.
What is a swamp?
400
Waterweed
What is a producer?
400
Red-winged blackbirds
What is the emergent zone?
500
The level below which the ground is water soaked, the top most level of ground water.
What is a water table?
500
Planned management of a natural resource to prevent eploitation, destruction or neglect.
What is conservation?
500
Wide, flat basins of standing water that receive water from rain, snow, and groundwater sources. Water is usually two metres deep or less, although it can be deeper.