After completing this unit, you will be able to:

• Analyze interrelationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in a local aquatic system

• Identify the interdependence of organisms in an aquatic environment such as in a pond, river, lake, ocean, or aquifer and the biosphere

• identify how energy flows and matter cycles through both freshwater and saltwater aquatic systems, including food webs, chains, and pyramids

• Evaluate the factors affecting aquatic population cycles

Vocab you will learn in this unit:

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Aquatic Environment

• Pond

• River

• Lake

• Ocean

• Biosphere

• Aquifer

• Energy

• Freshwater

• Saltwater

• Aquatic Systems

• Food chains

• Food webs

• Food pyramids

• Aquatic populations