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Pond Study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow and reproduce |
| Ponds, lakes, Streams, Rivers | Bodies of standing, or still, fresh water. |
| Organism | Any living thing |
| Environmental stressors | Things in the habitat that cause organisms to have difficulty surviving |
| Tolerance | The amount of environmental stressors that an organism can have in their habitat and still survive. |
| Eradicate | To eliminate all members of a species from an area |
| Neritic zone | The region of shallow ocean water over the continental shelf |
| Macroinvertebrate | Small animals without a backbone |
| Intolerant | Organisms who are negatively affected by environmental stressors |
| Estuary | Where fresh water of a river flows into the salt water of the ocean |
| Invasive weeds | Plants that overgrow crops or completely take over |
| 4 main abiotic factors for every ecosystem | Sunlight, temperature, oxygen, and salt content. |
| Producers in aquatic ecosystem | Algae and plants |