Aquatic Ecosystems Vocab

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

• Photic Zone

• Limnetic Zone

• Photic

• Littoral Zone

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

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

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

• Plankton

• Zooplankton

• Benthos

• Nekton

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Cloudiness of water

• Turbidity

• Eutrophic

• Salinity

• Oligotrophic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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

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

• Nekton

• Benthos

• Zooplankton

• Phytoplankton

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the muddy bottom of a lake, pond, or ocean

• Benthic

• Littoral Zone

• Benthic Zone

• Limnetic Zone

A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid

• Turbidity

• Zooplankton

• Salinity

• Eutrophic

Portion of the marine biome that is shallow enough for sunlight to penetrate.

• Littoral

• Photic Zone

• Limnetic

• Benthic