EthanBigLakes

=**__//Big Lakes//__**= Ethan Christiansen

10. Fort Peck Lake
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Microscopic: (4) -Bacteria: Single-celled organism that can live anywhere -Zooplankton: These plankton feed on other types of plankton as well as fish larvae and crustaceans.
 * List of Organisms**



Free-swimming or Free-Floating: -Fish (2) ---Bass (Largemouth and Smallmouth) ---Various types of Trout ---Various types of Salmon -Snakes (5) ---Cottonmouth ---Brown Water Snake ---Banded Water Snake Plant Producers: -Algae: Provides important nutrients to many different organisms in the lake -Detritus: Breaks down the feces of an organism and then gets the nutrients out of it. Then this is how the plant vegetation gets some nutrients, they get the rest of their energy from the sun.




 * Big Lakes Food Web**

**Threats**
-Pollution: This is a threat because it obviously is dangerous to wildlife. One form of pollution on the lake can be from gas pollution from all of the boats that are on the water everyday. Another danger is if too many people start littering. By leaving a Diet Coke can in the lake a small fish or other small organism could get stuck in it. Once it reaches the bottom it will take a long time for it to decompose. Finally, another type of pollution that could endanger the wildlife of a lake is if a factory or company needs to get rid of some materials, they could dump them into a lake. This is bad because it hurts all of the organisms in the environment. The level of pain though depends on what is being dumped into the lake, and how much of that substance is being dumped.

**Endangered Organisms** (6)
-- Scioto madtom --Topeka shiner -- Leafy prairie-clover --Pondberry --Copperbelly water snake --Bog turtle --Piping Plover --Whopping Crane
 * -Fish**
 * -Plants**
 * -Reptiles**
 * -Birds**

**Abiotic factors (7)**
-Water temperature -Hydrological Cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation)

**Reflection**
Big lakes are vital to many different animals and plants. The ecosystem of a lake gives so many different organisms a home other than the oceans and rivers. If the planet did not have lakes then all of the aquatic organisms would be jumbled up in the ocean, which would create more problems with the food chain. Not as many animals and plants would be able to survive. Lakes are valuable to humans because there are so many things to do at the lake. You can go boating, fishing, bird watching, hiking, and just enjoy the scenery that is around the lake. And obviously, all of the plants give out oxygen and take in carbon dioxide, which helps the environment.

Lake Webster can also be called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg or Lake Chaubunagungamaug. It is the longest place name in the United States. It means "Fishing Place at the Boundary," or "You Fish on Your Side, I Fish on My Side, Nobody Fish in the Middle".(3)
 * Fun Fact**



**Works Cited**
1. Various Authors. "List of Lakes of the United States." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation Inc., 5 Sept. 2010. Web. 7 Sept. 2010. . This is where I started my research to find a list of big lakes in the United States. 2. Various Authors. "Webster Lake(Lake Chaubunagungamaug)." //Anglerweb//. Anglerweb, 2010. Web. 7 Sept. 2010. . This is where I found many different types of fish for my Big Lakes project. 3. Various Authors. "OldeWebster: History and Founding." //OldeWebster//. OldeWebster, 2001. Web. 8 Sept. 2010. . This is where I found my fun fact. 4. Klappenbach, Laura. "Plankton." //About.com//. The New York Times Co, 2010. Web. 8 Sept. 2010. . This is where I found my definition for plankton. 5. "Snakes." //Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge//. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Sept. 2010. . This is where I found my information on snakes. 6. "Endangered Species Committee." //Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Team//. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Sept. 2010. . This is where I found my information on endangered wildlife. 7. Ochs, Richard. "Lake Biome, Abiotic and Biotic Factors, Examples of Biotic Factors." //All Experts//. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Sept. 2010. . This is where I found my information on abiotic factors.