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Mo1-L3: Key Concept Organizer
Direction: Answer each question or respond to each statement in the space provided.
Aquatic Ecosystems
1. How is an aquatic
ecosystem different
from a land ecosystem?
2. What are the abiotic
factors in an aquatic
ecosystem?
3. Give an example of an
adaptation that enables an
organism to live in an
aquatic ecosystem.
4. What are the four types
of aquatic ecosystems?
5. Define salinity.
6. Put the following in order
of salinity from lowest to
highest: ocean, freshwater,
estuary.
Mo1-L3: Key Concept Check
Direction: Complete the Venn diagram below by writing features of ponds on the left and lakes on the
right. Write what they have in common in the center.
1. PONDS 2.BOTH 3.LAKES
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