Types of Lotic

Freshwater Ecosystem
In simple terms, the
water bodies moving in
one direction is known
as a lotic freshwater ranging from a few square meters to
ecosystem. Rivers and
streams are common
pools. On the other hand, lakes may
examples of lotic
ecosystems.There are
many rivers and stream
that flows from their
origin and ultimately from the shoreline.1: Littoral Zone.2:
meets with other water
channels or oceans at
its mouth.Lotic
freshwater travel
through different
locations from its source
to mouth.The lotic
freshwater ecosystem is
divided into three zones
such as. 1:source zone.
2:transition – zone.
3:floodplain zone
Types of Lentic Freshwater Difference between Drainage Difference between Bedload and Difference between Riparian zones
Ecosystem An aquatic ecosystem Types of Groundwater Aquifer.1.
within stagnant or still water like Unconfined Aquifer.* basin and watersheds bedrock. Bedload1)It consists of and wetlands
ponds and lakes is known as Lentic 1:The topmost water bearing strata Drainage basin.1) an area loose materials that are Riparian zones- 1)Riparian zones are
Freshwater Ecosystem. Lentic having no confining impermeable over-
ecosystem found in various sizes burden is known as unconfined aquifer. drained by a river and its transported by the water flow.2: areas of land adjacent to rivers
2:This aquifer is also know non-artesian tributaries is called drainage The sediment particles are streams or other bodies of water.
thousands of square km.Some aquifer or water table aquifer.3:The
ponds last just for a few months as gravity wells are construct to tap water basin .2)the catchments of carried along the bed being 2)They serve as a transitional area
these are seasonal like sessile from unconfined aquifer only.4:The water large rivera are called river pushed and transported by the between aquatic ecosystems and
rise in such wells is equal to water rise in
exist for many years. Lentic a piezometer connected to the water basin.3)the drainage basin flowing water.3: Bedload plays a upland areas.3> They are typically
ecosystem, i.e. Ponds and lakes, table.2. Confined Aquifer. 1:It is such an covers lareger crucial role in stream dynamics characterized by moist and fertile
support a very limited number of aquifer which remains overladen by an
species.We can further divide the impermeable strata or aquiclude.2:The areas.Watersheds1)the and geomorphology. soils due to the close proximity to
lentic ecosystem into three zones water is under pressure in this boundary line separating one Bedrock-1:Bedrock on the other water. - Wetlands: 1>Wetlands on
based on their depth and distance aquifer.3:Confine aquifers are also know
as artesian aquifers.4:They can be drainage basin from the hand refers to the solid the other hand can be found in a
Limnetic Zone or Photic Zone. 3: consider analogous to pipe lines flowing other is known as the underlying rock layer beneath variety of locations such as coastal
Profundal Zone or Aphotic Zone under pressure
watersheds.2)those of small the loose sediment or soil.- areas floodplains or within riparian
Rivulets and rills are often 2:Bedrock being solid and zones. 2>Wetlands are characterized
referred to as immovable does not normally by the presence of waterlogged or
watersheds.3)watersheds move or transport within the saturated soils which support the
difference between delta and estuary delta
are small in areas. stream or river.-3: Bedrock growth of unique vegetation adapted
1: it is the flat,low-lying area formed at the
provides the underlying to such conditions.- 3>Wetlands on
mouth of the river. 2: it is suitable for
framework and stability for the the other hand act as natural filters
agricultural activities.3: they are formed in
stream or river. by removing excess nutrients
areas having low tides one plain surface.
sediment and pollutants from water.
4: e.g: Ganga and brahmaputra. Estuary 1:
It is the water body that is formed when the
river meets the sea.2: it is suitable for fishing
activities.3: they are formed in areas with
high tides and valleys.

Difference between Discharge

Difference between Food chain
and Food web.
*Food chain 1:A single, linear
pathway of energy flow. 2: may
consist of 4-6 trophic levels.
3: A disturbance on a single
trophic level/organism distrubs
the whole food. 4: Increases the
instability of an ecosystem. Food
web1: Has a number of
interconnected pathways through
which the energy flows within an
ecosystem. 2: consists of
numerous trophic levels.3: A
disturbance on a single organism
does not disturb the whole food
web.4: increases the stability of
an ecosystem.
difference between delta
and estuary delta 1: it is
the flat,low-lying area
formed at the mouth of the
river.2: it is suitable for
agricultural activities.3:
they are formed in areas
having low tides one plain
surface. 4: e.g: Ganga and
brahmaputra.Estuary 1: It
is the water body that is
formed when the river
meets the sea.2: it is
suitable for fishing
activities.3: they are
formed in areas with high
tides and valleys.
Difference between River
and stream River a
1:A river is a sizeable
floating body of water.2:A
river is deep.3:Largest
types of streams.4:A river
can cause a flood, 5:It
usually contains
Freshwater. Stream.1:A
small is a floating body of
water.2:A stream is no
deep.3:Small water
bodies.4:A stream cannot
cause a flood.5:It contains
any water.
Difference between Erosion
and transport.Erosion. 1> it is
the displacment of solids by
winds water and ice.2:Erosion
is the movement of these
broken pieces by water, wind,
or ice to another
area.3:Surface run-off and
throughflow cause erosion at
the point where the water
enters the valley head..
Transport 1>transportation is
the movement of material from
one place to another
place .2:transport is when
these broken pieces are
moved by currents to other
areas on the earth’s
surface,3:Transport refers to
the processes by which the
sediment is moved along
and channel
Discharge:1:Discharge
increases as more water is
added throand rainfall, tributary
streams, or from groundwater
seeping into the stream.2: The
volume of water passing any
point on a stream is called the
discharge.3: As discharge
increases, generally width, depth,
and velocity of the stream also
increase.Channel 1:the channel
is usually controlled by a linear
zone of weakness in the
underlying rock, like a fault or
joint system. 2: Even in straight
channel segments water flows in
a sinuous fashion, with the
deepest part of the channel
changing from near one bank to
near the other. 3: straight
channels will eventually erode
into meandering channels.
River bank In limnology,
the study of inland waters,
a stream bank or river
bank is the terrain
alongside the bed of a
river, creek, or stream.
Stream banks are of
particular interest in fluvial
geography, which studies
the processes associated
with rivers and streams
and the deposits and
landforms created by
them.
Populations
Populations are all the
members of a species that
live in a one area. You are
part of the human population
for your home town. A
freshwater pond has multiple
populations, including a
population of mallard ducks,
and a population of cattail
plants growing on the edge.
 Water cycle The water cycle is an
Ecosystem An ecosystem is important Biogeochemical Cycle
Producer The main Aquitards A saturated low Habitat:A habitat is a
a geographic area where involved in the flow or circulation of
producers of a permeability unit that can restrict Decomposers: place where an
plants, animals, and other water through different levels of the
freshwater biome are the movement of groundwater. It Decomposers of freshwater organism makes its
organisms, as well as weather ecosystem. The water cycle is
the plants and algae. may be able to store groundwater. biomes are microorganisms home. A habitat
and landscape, work together defined as a natural process of
When energy enters A saturated but poorly permeable like fungi and bacteria meets all the
to form a bubble of life. constantly recycling the water in the
the ecosystem as bed, formation or group of which breaks down animal environmental
Ecosystems contain biotic or atmosphere. It is also known as the
sunlight,plants and formations that does not yield and plant remains and as a conditions an
living, parts, as well as abiotic hydrological cycle or the hydrologic
algae capture the water freely to a borehole or result, convert them into organism needs to
factors, or nonliving parts. cycle.Stages of Water CycleThe
sunlight and store it as spring. However, an aquitard useful food for other survive.
Biotic factors include plants, complete water cycle is carried into
food energy. may store water and may animals and plants.
animals, and other organisms. four stages which are as follows:
transmit appreciable water to and
Abiotic factors include rocks, Evaporation, Condensation,
from adjacent aquifers.Aquitards
temperature, and humidity. Precipitation and
normally slow down the
movement of groundwater and Collection.1:Evaporation:This is the
contaminants. Aquitards can initial stage of the water cycle.The
also store groundwater and process by which water from its
contaminants. liquid state changes to vapour, a
gaseous state, is termed as
evaporation. During the water cycle,
water in the water bodies get
Freshwater Ecosystem heated up and evaporates in the
definition Lakes, ponds, rivers, form of vapour, mixes with the air
streams and wetlands that and
have a low salt concentration disappears.2:Condensation:When
(usually below 1%) and serve the evaporated water vapour loses
as habitats are called its thermal energy, it becomes liquid
freshwater ecosystems. The through the process of
two major divisions of condensation. Formation of clouds
freshwater ecosystems are are examples of
the lentic ecosystems and the condensation.3:Precipitation:Rain,
lotic ecosystems. snow, sleet, or hail are all examples
of Precipitation. After the
condensation, atmospheric water
vapour forms sufficiently large water
droplets and falls back to the earth
with the help of gravity.4:Deposition
or Collection:This is the final stage
of the water cycle. Deposition
occurs when evaporated water
vapour falls back to earth as
precipitation. This water may fall
back into the different water bodies,
including oceans, rivers, ponds,
lakes and even end up on the land,
which in turn becomes a part of the
groundwater.Overall, the water
cycle process describes how water
is balanced in the atmosphere. It
also plays an important role in
ensuring the availability of water for
all living organisms and also it has
a great impact on our environment.