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Aquatic Ecosystems Vocab

Authored by David Brinson

Science

10th - 12th Grade

NGSS covered

Used 6+ times

Aquatic Ecosystems Vocab
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a shallow zone in a freshwater habitat where light reaches the bottom and nurtures plants

Photic Zone

Limnetic Zone

Photic

Littoral Zone

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.

Zooplankton

Oligotrophic

Eutrophic

Phytoplankton

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An aquatic biome that is submerged or saturated by water for at least part of each year, but shallow enough to support emergent vegetation.

Eutrphication

Littoral Zone

Estuary

Freshwater wetlands

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

organisms that live attached to or near the bottom of lakes, streams, or ocean

Plankton

Zooplankton

Benthos

Nekton

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Cloudiness of water

Turbidity

Eutrophic

Salinity

Oligotrophic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.

Salinity

Benthic Zone

Estuary

Benthos

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Microscopic, free-floating, autotrophic organisms that function as producers in aquatic ecosystems

Nekton

Benthos

Zooplankton

Phytoplankton

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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