Freshwater Environments

Objectives: Students should be able to:

1. Recognize different freshwater environments.
2. Recognize flowing and standing water
3. Compare between different freshwater environments.
4. Recognize animals and plants that live in freshwater.
Water environments are classified into two main groups:
Salty water environments ex. Sea, Ocean
Freshwater environments. Ex. Stream, river, pond, lake…

Stream
River

Lake

Pond
 River is
freshwater
Environment.
Comes from
rain or
snowmelt

River is deep and

wide.
It is flowing water
Stream is a freshwater
Environment.
It is narrow and
shallow.
It is flowing.
 Freshwater Environments

• Compare between river and stream.

Both are flowing freshwater environments.
The river is wide and deep while the stream is narrow and shallow.
 Pond
- Freshwater Environment
- Small and shallow
- Standing water
 Lake
- Freshwater Environment
- Wide and deep
- Standing water
• Compare between Lake and Pond.
Both are standing freshwater environments.
Lake is wide and deep while pond is small and shallow.
Classwork over 5
Compare between lake and river
• Both are deep and wide freshwater environments.
• Lake is standing water while river is flowing water.
River is flowing freshwater. Deep and wide Stream is flowing freshwater. Narrow and shallow
Lake is standing freshwater environment. It is wide and deep Pond is standing freshwater environment. It is
small and shallow.
 1.Shallow ponds, marshes…

2. A lake is standing freshwater while a river is flowing freshwater.

The water in the sea is salty while in the freshwater environments the water is not salty.
 Different plants and animals live in the freshwater.

Duckweeds
are plants
with
flexible
Ducks use stems.
reeds for
shelter.
 Algae
float on
the Irises provid
surface food and
of water, shelter fo
they animals.
don’t
have
roots.

The frog is sleeping in the water lily

Plants
Reeds
Bulrushes
Duckweed
Algae
Iris
Weeping willow
Water lilies

2. The frog is sleeping in the water lily

3. Algae float on the surface of water

because they don’t have roots
 varied
stream river
flowing
lakes marshes
water snakes
Freshwater
frogs fish
reeds
irises float
algae Duckweed.
 a. fish, frogs..

b. From the rain

c. No, because it has mud, animals and plants