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.