World biomes

Question 1

what two parts is the aquatic biome broken in to?

Answer 1

freshwater and marine

Question 2

what determines if a body of water is freshwater?

Answer 2

if it has less than 3% salt.

Question 3

List the 3 zones found in a pond or lake?

Answer 3

Littoral,limnetic, and profundal.

Question 4

what are some flora and fauna in the littoral zone?

Answer 4

amphibians,insect larvae,species of algae,crustaceans,snails,clams…

Question 5

Describe where a limnetic zone would be found in a lake.

Answer 5

middle of the lake, surrounded by the littoral zone.

Question 6

What flora and fauna resides in the limnetic zone?

Answer 6

Phytoplankton(plants) and zooplankton(animals) and freshwater fish.

Question 7

What is the most important thing plankton do?

Answer 7

Provide 90% of the worlds air. 0 plankton= 0 life.

Question 8

Where is the profundal zone located?

Answer 8

In the deepest part of the lake/pond.

Question 9

What is a characteristic of the profundal zone?

Answer 9

It is colder and denser b/c little light reaches it.

Question 10

Where do the dead organisms go when they die in a pond or lake?

Answer 10

The profundal zone!

Question 11

What are the fauna of the profundal zone?

Answer 11

heterotrophs.

Question 12

In the profundal zone, what is the heterotrophs job?

Answer 12

To eat dead organisms and use oxygen for cellular respiration.

Question 13

What are the 4 zones of the marine biome?

Answer 13

inter tidal, neritic, benthic, and abyssal.

Question 14

What is a characteristic of the inter tidal zone?

Answer 14

It bears high and low tides, which the moon changes every 12 hours.

Question 15

What is some flora in the inter tidal zone?

Answer 15

Trick question! There is no flora b/c of the constant water movement.

Question 16

What fauna resides in the inter tidal zone?

Answer 16

Mostly crustaceans like crabs,shrimp,and oysters.

Question 17

Where is the neritic zone located?

Answer 17

In the ocean, along the continental shelf.

Question 18

Why is the neritic zone the best place for flora and fauna?

Answer 18

B/C of its nutritional soil.

Question 19

Describe the flora that lives in the neritic zone.

Answer 19

Seagrass, seaweed,sea flowers,PLANKTON, and algae.

Question 20

Describe a characteristic of the benthic zone.

Answer 20

The temp. decreases the deeper you go b/c of the lack of light.

Question 21

What flora resides in the benthic zone?

Answer 21

Mostly seaweed.

Question 22

Describe 3 types of fauna in the benthic zone.

Answer 22

All sorts of bacteria, sponges, sea anemones…

Question 23

Describe a fact about the abyssal zone.

Answer 23

It is very cold and high in oxygen, low in nutrition.

Question 24

Where are streams and rivers found?

Answer 24

starts at headwaters, which may be springs, snowmelt or even lakes, and then travel all usually another water channel or the ocean.

Question 25

What is the water like in a stream/river?

Answer 25

Cold, high oxygen levels, fast moving, clear.

Question 26

Fauna in stream/river.

Answer 26

Fish that require high oxygen, and heterotrophs.

Question 27

Where kind species diversity found at the middle stream/river.

Answer 27

Numerous aquatic green plants and algae

Question 28

What is the water like at the mouth of the river/stream.

Answer 28

water becomes murky from all the sediments that it has picked up upstream

Question 29

What kind of fish is found upstream? (think water)

Answer 29

catfish and carp

Question 30

What are wetlands?

Answer 30

Marshes, swamps, and bogs

Question 31

Flora in wetlands.

Answer 31

pond lilies, cattails, sedges, tamarack, and black spruce. and various grasses.

Question 32

Fauna in wetlands.

Answer 32

amphibians, reptiles, birds (such as ducks and waders), and furbearers can be found in the wetlands.shrimp, shellfish.

Question 33

Where is the place, in the abyssal zone, where the food chain starts?

Answer 33

bacteria found at hydrothermal vents, along the ocean floors

Question 34

Where are coral reefs located?

Answer 34

widely distributed in warm shallow waters at fringing islands, and atolls.

Question 35

How do coral eat their food?

Answer 35

algae via photosynthesis and also by extending tentacles to obtain plankton from the water.

Question 36

What are coral reef waters like?

Answer 36

nutrionally poor

Question 37

Fauna at coral reefs.

Answer 37

microorganisms, invertebrates, fishes, sea urchins, octopuses, and sea stars.

Question 38

What are estuaries?

Answer 38

areas where freshwater streams or rivers merge with the ocean.

Question 39

What type of flora at estuaries?

Answer 39

seaweeds, marsh grasses, and mangrove trees, algae

Question 40

Fauna at estuaries?

Answer 40

Worms, oysters, crabs, and waterfowl,birdy.