| A | B |
|---|
| swamp | woody plants-trees and shrubs (along streambeds and floodplains) |
| marshes | herbaceous plants (cattails, grasses, and pickerelweed) |
| bog | evergreen trees and shrubs and carpeted with sphagnum moss |
| decayed moss accumulates as: | peat |
| pocosin | "spongy" ground |
| lake | deepest type of standing water; temp. chgs. with depth; usu. fed by underground aquifers and rivers; usu. have an aphotic zone |
| pond | smaller shallower version of a lake; usu. light reaches benthic zone; mostly fed by rainfall or streams |
| upland streams | fast-moving streams where there is a slope in the topography |
| riffles | rock and boulder filled areas where the waters tumble |
| pools (or splash pools) | quiet, deeper areas of an upland stream |
| detritus | partially decomposed bits of leaves and organic matter |
| drift | benthic invertebrates and algae that are "drifting" in the water |
| riparian areas (riparian buffers) | natural vegetation along or around water bodies; helps prevent sediment and other pollutants from entering thw water way; shades and keeps water cooler |
| meanders | twists and turns in streams and rivers (occur more in lowland streams, rivers) |
| floodplain | A plain bordering a river and subject to flooding. |
| ox bow lake | where a meander curves back on itself creating a lake separate from the river |
