Lakes and Ponds Vocabulary

• Alciae: plantlike forms that create food energy for themselves and the different life forms within the habitat.

• Aquifer: permeable earth material that contains and carries groundwater.

• Evaporation: the change of liquid water into vapor water.

• Planaria: small meat eating worms found in ponds.

• Pollution: a condition in which some part of the environment is changed so that it is unfit for human, plant or animal use.

• Water Table: the surface below which the ground is saturated with water.