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Freshwater Guide 3A

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This guide explores complex food webs within lakes, ponds, wetlands, and streams.

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Freshwater Guide Contents

Complete all four of these sections before taking the quiz and submitting your two journal pages.

Freshwater Guide Objectives

This guide’s quiz has four questions; one matching each objective.

Lakes & Ponds

Classify lakes based on productivity and identify three different lake zones; write the general process of photosynthesis and provide example of photosynthetic pond organisms; and provide examples of pond consumers, both microscopic and macroscopic, and explain the cascade hypothesis using a lake food web.


Wetlands

Provide examples of different types of wetlands and describe wetland functions; list the characteristics of amphibian species; and describe how various carnivorous plants catch their prey.


Mammals

List characteristics of mammals; describe marsupials and monotremes, and provide an example of each; and describe beaver characteristics, including impacts on ecosystems.


Conservation Biology

Define conservation biology and natural capital; link stream order to photosynthesis; and provide examples of threats to species and describe efforts to save species from extinction.


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