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    All ecosystems are linked by water, which covers most of Earth's surface and sustains life. There are two main types of aquatic ecosystems: freshwater and marine. Freshwater ecosystems include rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, and wetlands. Lakes can be divided into littoral, limnetic, euphotic, and benthic zones. Rivers and streams flow from headwaters to outlets, supporting plants like reeds and animals like fish. Marine ecosystems contain oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries, with oceans divided into intertidal, pelagic, benthic, abyssal, and hadal zones inhabited by organisms adapted to each.

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    All ecosystems are linked by water, which covers most of Earth's surface and sustains life. There are two main types of aquatic ecosystems: freshwater and marine. Freshwater ecosystems include rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, and wetlands. Lakes can be divided into littoral, limnetic, euphotic, and benthic zones. Rivers and streams flow from headwaters to outlets, supporting plants like reeds and animals like fish. Marine ecosystems contain oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries, with oceans divided into intertidal, pelagic, benthic, abyssal, and hadal zones inhabited by organisms adapted to each.

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    All ecosystems are linked by water, which covers most of Earth's surface and sustains life. There are two main types of aquatic ecosystems: freshwater and marine. Freshwater ecosystems include rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, and wetlands. Lakes can be divided into littoral, limnetic, euphotic, and benthic zones. Rivers and streams flow from headwaters to outlets, supporting plants like reeds and animals like fish. Marine ecosystems contain oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries, with oceans divided into intertidal, pelagic, benthic, abyssal, and hadal zones inhabited by organisms adapted to each.

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    AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM

    Tricia Mae C. Atienza


    SOCTARES
    All ecosystem are linked together by water. Because water
    covers about 75% of Earth's surface, numerous plants and animals
    inhabit it. Water sustains most life-forms and without it, Earth
    would be a very hot and barren planet. The Aquatic Ecosystems are
    divided into two:

    *Freshwater Ecosystem
    *Marine Ecosystem
    Freshwater Ecosystems

    Rivers and streams, ponds, wetlands, and lakes


    are freshwater ecosystems. Only about 3% of the
    world's water is fresh water and frozen water
    locked up in glaciers and polar ice caps.
    Lakes and Ponds
    Lakes are large bodies of water that are
    surrounded by land, while ponds are bodies of
    water also surrounded by land but are smaller
    than lakes. Some ponds dry up during the hot
    summer. Ponds and lakes are often referred to as
    lentic ecosystems because they have standing or
    still waters unlke the moving waters in rivers and
    streams.
    Lakes are divided into four zones of biotic
    communities:
    1. Littoral Zone - The are closest to the shore where
    aquatic plants grow
    2. Limnetic Zone - The open surface of the lake, away
    from the shore
    3. Euphotic - The area below the water surface that
    sunlight cn penetrate and where the process of
    photosynthesis occurs
    4. Benthic zone - The lowest zone or bottom of the lake.
    Streams and Rivers
    Streams and rivers are bodies of flowing water that get their
    start at headwaters which may be a sping or even a lake and then
    flow to another body of water or to the ocean. The river changes
    as it flows from the water source to its mouth (where a river flows
    or empties into a sea or lake).
    Animals that live in or around the streams and rivers include
    fishes, crabs, snails, snakes, mudfishes, eels, and in some places,
    crocodiles.
    Plants that grow around these bodies of water include reeds,
    Elodea (a kind of waterweed),water hyacinths, and kangkong,
    which may also vary depending on the location.
    Wetlands

    are areas of standing water that support


    various animals. These lands are saturated
    with water and may be underwater most of
    the time specially during the rainy season .
    Wetlands include marshes, swamps, and bogs.
    Marine Ecosystems
    The marine ecosystems may be divided into
    three types:

    1. Oceans- These are the largest of all


    ecosystems. An ocean in divided into zones based
    on penetration of sunlight and depth.
    a. Intertidial zone- Sometimes referred to as the littoral
    zone, this is the area between high and low tides. This
    area may be a sandy beach, a rocky beach, jagged coral
    outcroppings, or wetlands.

    b. Pelgic zone- The open water area except those near the
    coast and the sea floor is called the pelagic zone. This
    zone is the largest habitat on Earth with a volume of more
    than 500 million cubic kilometers.
    c. Benthic zone- This is located betwwen the pelagic zone
    and the abyssal zone. It supports many fishes and
    invertebrates.

    d. Abyssal Zone- The water in this zone is high in oxygen


    content but low in nutrition content.

    e. Hadal- This is the deepest part of the ocean at 6 000 to


    11 000 m. It is made up of deep trenches and troughs.
    More than 400 species are known to live in the trenches.
    Organisms in this zone are more dependent on “food falls” or
    dead plankton and fish carcasses sinking or falling down from the
    surface waters and from nutrients swirling around the zone.
    (HADEEP Project of the Universities of Aberdeen and Tokyo)
    found that small shrimplike crustaceans of the genus Hirondellea,
    lobsters, crabs, prawns, grenadiers (deep sea fish), liparids
    (endemic hadal zone fishes that were never seen alive and were
    caught only once in the 1950s) are found in this zone.
    2. Coral reefs- About 25% of marine species live in coral
    reefs. Here, hard and soft corals, sponges, crustaceans,
    mollusks, fishes, sea turtles, sharks, dolphins, and other
    marine species can be found.

    3.Estuaris- These are partially enclosed bodies of water


    along the coast where freshwater from rivers and streams
    meet and mix with saltwater from the oceans.
    THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

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