6.2 Biomes Vocab

detachment of material from the stream bed or its sides

• Erosion

• Salinity

• Deposition

The zone of a lake that is the area near shore where sunlight penetrates all the way to the bottom

• Limnetic zone

• Littoral zone

• a large body of water surrounded by land, deeper than ponds

The zone of a lake that consists of open water .

• Limnetic zone

• Nutrients

• Salinity

The amount of salt in water

• Limnetic zone

• Nutrients

• Salinity

Abiotic minerals and compounds necessary for life (e.g. salt)

• Lakes

• River

• Nutrients

• Deposition

Animals that eat the partially-decayed remains of other animals

• Erosion

• Detritivores

• Nutrients

• Deposition

a large body of water surrounded by land, deeper than ponds

• Erosion

• Lakes

• Nutrients

• Limnetic zone

A large, flowing body of water that usually empties into a sea or ocean

• Erosion

• Lakes

• Rivers

• Limnetic zone

Process in which sediment is carried by the wind, flowing water, the sea or ice to new locations such as lakes or ponds

• Erosion

• Lakes

• Deposition

• Nutrients

all the area that drains into a stream

• Erosion

• Drainage basin

• Deposition

• Watershed