Freshwater+1

1. Where in the world is the biome located (try and find an image that you can can copy and paste into your page)?

2. What is the climate like (what is the temperature and the weather)?

3. What different types of plants exist in this biome?

4. What different types of animals exist in this biome?

5. How is this biome threatened by humans?

6. Give an example of a specific ecosystem that would be classified as this biome (i.e. Lake Ontario is specific ecosystem that is an example of a freshwater biome)

1. Freshwaters such as ponds, streams and lakes are located in every continent, but mostly it's located in Asia.

2.If it's summer the temperature of ponds and lakes could go from 4° C to 22° C and during winter the temperature of ponds and lakes could go from 4° C to 0° C(ice), but streams are cooler than ponds and lakes.

3.There are plants that live in freshwater such as lilies, cattails, sedges, tamarack, and black spruce.

4.Types of animals exist in freshwater and live around the freshwater are fishes, birds such as hawks, eagles and maybe pelican, and maybe mammals because freshwaters are nearby jungles and forests.

5. This biome is threatened by humans because they are polluting freshwaters by throwing their garbage in the freshwaters and taking too much fishes from freshwaters.

6. Another specific ecosystem of freshwater is The Niagara Falls and Lake Ontario.