Lentic Systems Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• lotic : running water such as streams and rivers.
• man made : unnatural lake caused by damming rivers, quarries or mines or stock ponds on ranches
• benthic : region at lowest level of a body of water.
• clarity : _ clarity determines how far light can penetrate
• hypolimnion : deepest coldest layer of a lake
• epliminion : surface layer of water mixed by wind.
• oxbow : lake formed by meandering rivers.
• photic : zone where light reaches
• profundal : zone deep bottom water area with no light penetration. no photosynthesis or rooted plants.
• eutrophic : shallow, nutrient lakes with high productivity and low oxygen.
• oligotrophic : deep, low nutrient lakes with low aquatic plants & high oxygen.
• playas : lake formed from multiple things that leave a depression.
• littoral : zone on the shore area of the lake or pond that is shallow enough for light.
• lentic : standing water such as lakes and ponds.
• watershed : freshwater ecosystem is determined by this.
• limnetic : zone of well-lit open waters away from the shore
• thermocline : transition layer of a lake between the mixed layer the the surface
• aphotic : zone where light does not penetrate
• glacier : lake formed by glaciers.