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Aquatic Ecosystems
Question | Answer |
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What is a watershed? | All the land from which water drains into a specific body of water. |
What is a flowing body of water? | A river and/or stream. |
What is a standing body of water? | A lake and/or pond. |
Which of these animals have uses more energy? | Largemouth Bass (12 ibs for example) |
Which animal uses LESS energy? | Algae (.01 ibs for example) |
What is a riffle? | A shallow, fast flowing area in a river or stream |
What is a channel? | The area where the water collects and flows down stream in a flowing body of water |
What is a pool? | Slow moving areas of deeper parts of a flowing body of water |
What bodys of water are found in the state of MISS-OUR-I? | Ponds, rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands. |
What is an energy pyramid? | A pyramid that shows the amount of energy avaible on each trophic level. |
What is a food chain? | How energy moves form producers to primary consumers to secondary consumers and so on. |
What is a first-order stream? | A small stream wit notributaries coming into it. A bigger first-order stream forms a second order stream. |