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.
Larger animals such as fish, use zooplankton as a food source. And still larger animals, such as birds, feed on fish. Birds and small mammals make up a higher level of the food chain in a pond. Larger aquatic plants can grow rooted to the bottom of ponds and are supported by the water. These plants help stabilize the sediments
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