Freshwater Biomes

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Freshwater Biomes
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LOCATION

• Freshwater is located all over the world.
• Freshwater biomes consist mainly of lakes and
  ponds and rivers and streams.
• Consists of only 3 of Earths waters.

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Temperatures

• It varies in ponds and lakes, especially in the
  summer. Temps can range from 4C at the bottom
  and 22C at the top.
• Streams and rivers are cooler at the source
  rather than the mouth.

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ANIMALS

• Trout, catfish, bass, turtles, insects, frogs,
  salamanders, shellfish, snakes

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PLANTS

• Algae, water lilies, cattails, reeds.
• Plants in streams or rivers do not take root
  because of the moving water.
• Phytoplankton is not commonly present in rivers
  and streams because of the moving water.

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Saltwater Biomes
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LOCATION

• Also called Marine Biomes.
• 3 types of ocean biomes coastal waters, open
  ocean, and deep ocean.
• Covers 71 of Earths surface.

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Temperatures

• Coastal waters receive sunlight because of
  shallow water.
• Open oceans are generally cold due to constant
  mixing of water and very little sunlight.
• Deep ocean is very cold and dark.

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ANIMALS

• Coastal scallops, crabs, sea anemones, and
  clams.
• Open Ocean zooplankton, whales, dolphins.
• Deep Ocean microscopic animals.

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PLANTS

• Coastal Algae, seaweed
• Open ocean phytoplankton, seaweed, very few
  plant life
• Deep ocean very few producers organisms feed
  off of one another or off of sinking producers
  from the upper parts of the ocean.