Freshwater
Ashleigh Bailey
Glossary
Preserve: to keep something alive or in existance; make it last.
Organism: an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
Flora: the plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.
Fauna: the animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.
Ecosytem: a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment.
Wetland: Often, wetlands. land that has a wet and spongy soil, as a marsh,swamp, or bog.
Littoral zone: the marine ecological realm that experiences the effects of tidal and longshorecurrents and breaking waves to
a depth of 5 to 10 meters.
Limnetic zone: the limnetic zone is the well-lit, open surface waters in a lake, away from the shore.
Euphotic zone: the layer of sea water that receives enough sunlight for photosynthesisto occur.
Amphibions: a cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and caecilians. They are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.