Environmental Science LTSC
Cards (36)
- These are habitats that are either under water or soaked with water part of the year.
- The amount of water in a wetland can change depending on ____ and precipitation.
- Wetlands have ____ soils.
- These are soils that formed in ___ conditions.
- The amount of water in a wetland can change depending on temperature and ___.
- Hydric soils are anerobic. This means they contain very little ____.
- Hydric soils are _____. This means they contain very little oxygen.
- Plants that grow in wetlands have special ____. These allow them to grow in low-oxygen conditions.
- Aerobic soils have large amounts of _____.
- _____ and bulrushes have these adaptations.
- Cattails and ____ have these adaptations.
- Phytoplankton are microscopic ___ that can create their own food.
- ___ are microscopic algae that can create their own food.
- ___ are microscopic animals that eat phytoplankton.
- Bogs are also called ___ bogs.
- Peat is a build-up of slightly-decayed ___.
- The main kinds of vegetation in bogs are ___ mosses.
- Marshes are rich in ____.
- They have many kinds of ____ vegetation.
- They have many kinds of emergent ____.
- Marshes are the most ____ type of wetlands.
- Unlike bogs, ___ are fed by surface water and groundwater.
- The main kind of plant growing in fens are ___.
- The Earth is made up of many different _____.
- Ecosystems on land are called ______.
- Ecosystems in water are called ____.
- _____ ecosystems can be further divided into lentic eocsystems and lotic systems.
- Freshwater _____ can be further divided into lentic ecosystems and lotic ecosystems.
- ___ are microscopic animals that eat phytoplankton.
- Fish, amphibians, and reptiles depend on the habitat provided by ___.
- Bogs are also called ___ bogs.
- Poor drainage and decaying plant material makes bogs very ___.
- ____ are permamently or regularly covered in standing or slow-moving water.
- The main kinds of vegetation in bogs are sphagnum ___.