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Process Grid Teacher Copy BIOMES Estuary Meadow Forest Pond Lake Defining Characteristics Producers Consumers Decomposers Human Impact Puget Sound is 2nd largest estuary in world. Where freshwater flows into ocean, a mixture. Protected from ocean waves by land. Rich nursery for salmon, birds and other animals. Beginning of food web. Photosynthesis. Phytoplankton Diatroms Eel Grass Bull Kelp Ducks, geese and shorebirds Seals, waterfowl, and many species of fish Young salmon Nature’s “trash collectors” Flies, snails, crabs and many worms Feed on detritus. Over use of resources: unsafe drinking water, beach and shellfish bed closings, harmful algal blooms, unproductive fisheries, loss of habitat, fish kills, and wildlife, and a host of other human health and natural resource problems. Global warming Low-Level grassland Natural or artificial Otter and Bear Meadow Otter: artificial to grow hay for pasture Bear: clear-cut result from logging Many planted or transferred from humans Thick and dense grass. Orchard timothy and velvet grasses. Salmon berries, Himalayan blackberry and other berryshrubs. Flowers like clover and dandelions. Legumes, peas and bracken fern Stinging nettle Coniferous: Cone bearing/Evergreen Deciduous: falling off Conifer: Western red cedar, douglas fir noble fir Snowbeerry, elderberry and sword fern Nursery logs Voles and other rodents, mice Coyotes Deer Many bird species Birds of prey Bats Woodpeckers Salamanders Fungi: mushrooms Bacteria Trash collectors Resulted from a clear cut in early 1990s. Invasion of Himalayan blackberry, salmonberry and bracken fern. Insects and amphibians Snags: upright dead trees Cavity nesting birds: owls and woodpeckers Deer Bears Eagles and hawks Bacteria 1/3 of Earth Trees are dominate plant Three layers: forest, understory, canopy Floor: soil, dead plants, animals and small plants. Understory: small trees/bushes Canopy: trees BIOMES Intertidal Meadow Forest Pond Lake Defining Characteristics Producers Consumers Decomposers Human Impact