Rivers & Springs
Abnellys Roca-Rios Period 4
Rivers & Springs
Rivers are thin, long streams that open into a larger body of water
Springs is a natural situation in which water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface
- beginning of river is the head
- the end of a river is a mouth
- longest river in Florida: Chattahoochee River
Abiotic factors
- light
- temperature
- chemistry
- substrate
- SUBSTRATE: Often sandy, but sometimes exposed limestone, silt, or clay.
- TOPOGRAPHY/HYDROLOGY: Most rivers and streams slow flowing; some panhandle rivers originate at higher elevations and are faster flowing; most springs are artesian. Of 24 major rivers, 21 flow south or west to the Gulf, 2 flow north and east to the Atlantic, and one flows south to Lake Okeechobee.
- PROCESSES/DYNAMICS/ABIOTIC FACTORS: Sand-bottom streams are slightly acidic and moderately colored; swamp-and-bog streams are very acidic and darkly colored; calcareous streams are cool, clear, and alkaline; large rivers carry considerable silt and clay and are always muddy.
Biotic Factors
Alligator snapping turtle: Macroclemys temminckii
American alligator: Alligator mississippiensis
Belted Kingfisher: Ceryle alcyon
Bladderwort: Genus Utricularia
Buttonbush: Cephalanthus occidentalis
Florida manatee: Trichechus manatus latirostris
Pickerelweed: Pontederia cordata
Classification of the American Alligator
domain: eukaryote
- Kingdom: animalia
- Phylum: Chordate
- Class: reptile
- Order: crocodilia
- Family: Alligatoridae
- Genus: alligator
- Species: Alligator mississippiensis
sources
where I found my abiotic & biotic factors
Sources
Where I found my facts & apex animal, biotic, & abiotic