Freshwater Guide 3A
This guide explores complex food webs within lakes, ponds, wetlands, and streams.
Video Overview
Watch this introduction video. You can select “cc” to see the text.
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.
Freshwater Product Page
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