Aquatic Ecosystems Vocab
Authored by David Brinson
Science
10th - 12th Grade
NGSS covered
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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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