Fresh Water

Aquatic Aquatic Biomes Biomes

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Marine

Biomes Fresh Water Biomes: Ponds and Lakes: Ponds: Lakes:

Producers Ponds: Producers Lakes:

Anmimals Ponds: Animals Lakes:

Streams and Rivers:

Streams - Headwaters Rivers:

Quick Moving Streams and Rivers Producers: Producers: Animals: Animals:

Slower Moving Streams and Rivers Producers:

Animals: ------Marine Biomes: Estuary:

Intertidal Zone: Animals:

Neritic Zone: Animals:

Surface Zone: Producers: Animals:

Deep Zone: Animals:

Fresh Water Biomes Ponds, Lakes, Streams, Rivers Ponds and Lakes: Standing or Still Fresh Water Ponds: Smaller and Shallow Lakes: Larger and deeper Allows sunlight to reach the bottom even in the center. This allows plants to grow. Producers Ponds: Plants (Water Lilys, Cat Tail) Producers Lakes: Floating Algae Animals Ponds: (shoreline) insects, snails, frogs, Animals Lakes: (same as ponds) salamanders (open water) bass, catfish, sunfish Decomposers: Bacteria Streams and Rivers: Moving bodies of water Streams : Headwaters – Where the stream begins Rivers: Same as Streams Quick Moving Streams and Rivers Producers: Few plants live in quick moving waters Producers: Few plants live in moving water Animals: Trout have streamlined bodies to allow Animals: Fish are streamlined or have hooks them to swim and small animals have hooks and suckers or suckers to attach to rocks. Feed on fallen seeds Slower Moving Streams and Rivers- water becomes Producers: Plants take root among the pebbles cloudy with soil. Water has less oxygen. on the river bottom. Animals: Insects, frogs, fish ------Marine Biomes: Oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries Estuary: where the river meets the sea. Very rich Producers: plants: Marsh grasses and algae habitat for living things because of the nutrients Animals: crabs, worms, clams, oyster, and fish carried in by the river. Intertidal Zone: shore between the highest high-tide and Animals: Must withstand the pounding waves, lowest low-tide. Sudden temperature change, and being covered water and exposed to air. Barnacles, sea stars, clams, and crabs. Neritic Zone: Where the edge of the continent extends Animals: sardines and anchovies into the ocean (like a shelf). Below low tide line and coral reefs very shallow water so photosynthesis can occur. Surface Zone: Open ocean, light penetrates only a Producers: floating algae few hundred feet. Animals: tuna, swordfish, and whales Marine food webs depend on algae to survive. Deep Zone: Open ocean below the surface zone. Animals: giant squid, glow in the dark fish, Completely dark, most animals rely on remains of fish with rows and rows of teeth. (angler fish) Organisms floating down from surface zone.