Transcription of Lesson 1: Aquatic Ecosystems - USF
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1 NEIGHBORHOOD WATER QUALITY. Lesson 1: Aquatic Ecosystems Keywords: ecosystem, ecology, watershed, surface water, hydrologic cycle, evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, surface runoff, percolation, porous, aquifer, groundwater, spring, pond, phytoplankton, zooplankton, photosynthesis, An ecosystem is a natural unit of biological components. The plants living and nonliving parts that interact within an ecosystem convert the to produce a stable system. Ecology sun's energy into food, and are in is the study of Ecosystems , or how turn grazed upon by animals, which living things relate to the are consumed by predators. environment and to one another. Microorganisms within an Understanding this relationship is ecosystem, such as fungi and important because living things and bacteria, also exchange energy non-living things depend upon and within the ecosystem by breaking impact each other.
©PROJECT OCEANOGRAPHY 5 NEIGHBORHOOD WATER QUALITY FALL 2000 NEIGHBORHOOD WATER QUALITY transport these through the soil into the groundwater. Underground Water and Aquifers Below the ground is a series of rocks that act as a sponge for groundwater, soaking up water and holding it in many crevices and grooves. The spaces in a …
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