Monerans are single celled organisms that have no nucleus or organelles. Monerans do not have a specific job instead they're individual cells that survive on their own but can become clusters or groups of cells.The kingdom Monera is separated into two different areas, Bacteria and Cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria is green and usually water based but can grow on wet rocks or in some wet soils. Bacteria can be good or bad, good bacteria is the bacteria that helps you digest. Bad bacteria is the bacteria that carries disease and makes you sick.
Anabaena oumiana
Scientific name: Anabaena oumiana.
Shape: Cocci
Location: On the bottom of ponds and lakes.
Scientific name:Gloeocapsa magma
Shape: Cocci
Location: On the banks of ponds and lakes.
Protists
Protists are complex single celled organisms although some are multi celled. Protists have a nucleus and organelles unlike Monerans. Protists are separated into two groups, Protozoan meaning animal like and Algae meaning plantlike.
Anabaena flos-aquae
Definition: Algae is a plant like Protist. Algae has a cell wall and chlorophyl. Algae make their own food through photosynthesis and most live in water. Algae may live alone or in colonies of cells.
Scientific name: Anabaena flos- aquae
Information: this protist is a form of green algae.
Location: found in slow-moving lakes and ponds.
Type: algae
Peranema trichophorum
Definition: Protozoans are animal like Protists. Protozoans are single celled with no cell wall or chlorophyl. They take in food and move around. Some protozoans can't move on their own so they just enter the hosts cells.
Scientific name: Peranema trichophorum
Type: Protozoan
Location: In freshwater lake and ponds in the water. FungiFungus are multi-celled organisms with no chlorophyll. Absorb nutrients from whatever they are on.
Dead man's fingers
Definition: Cup shaped Fungus.
Scientific Name: Xylaria polymorpha
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Ascomycetes
Order: Xylariales
Family: Xylariaceae
Genus: Xylaria
Species: polymorpha
Location: Can be found on dead decaying trees in the woods
that can be found along lakes.
Death Cap
Definition: Club shaped- closely packed filaments.
Scientific Name: Amanita phalloides
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Pluteaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species: phalloides
Location: Along the shores of Lakes and ponds and in the
outer forests.
common name: Cramp Balls
Definition: Cup shaped Fungus.
Scientific Name:Daldinia concentrica
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Ascomycetes
Order: Xylariales
Family: Xylariaceae
Genus: Daldinia
Species: concentrica
Location: Rotting trees surrounding Lakes and Ponds
Common name: unknown
Definition: microscopic fungus that grows on roots of plants.
Scientific Name: Glomus clarum
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum:Glomeromycota
Class: Glomeromycetes
Order: Glomerales
Family: Glomeraceae
Genus: Glomus
Species: Clarum
Location: On the roots of some plants surrounding lakes and ponds
Plants:
Plants are Multi-Celled organisms that have 2 groups. Non-vascular and Vascular. Non-vascular plants have no water conducting tissue, and they are close to the ground. Vascular plants have water conducting tissues through out the plant.
Common Name: Cattail
Vascular/Liliopsida
Location: On the banks of lakes and ponds.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Typhales
Family: Typhaceae
Genus: Typha
Species: angustifolia
Common Name: Weeping Willow
Vascular/Magnoliopsida
Location: Hanging over lakes and ponds.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Salicales
Family: Salicaceae
Genus: Salix
Species: alba
Common Name: Water Hyacinth
Non-Vascular/ Liliopsida
Location: A floating flower that can be found floating
or on the shore.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Pontederiales
Family: Pontederiaceae
Genus: Eichhornia
Species: crassipes
Common Name: Dwarf-flowered heart leaf
Non-vascular/Piperopsida
Location: In little groves around the shores of lakes and ponds.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Piperopsida
Order: Apocynales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Hoya
Species: kerrii
Vascular/Equisetopsida
Location: On the banks of lakes and ponds
or in the shallows of lakes and ponds
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Equisetales
Family: Equisetaceae
Genus: Equisetum
Species: hyemale
Common Name: Chain Fern
Location: can grow in slightly brackish water. Kingdom:Plantae Phylum:Tracheophyta Class:Polypodiopsida Order:Polypodiales Family:Blechnaceae Genus:Woodwardia Species:orientalis
Animals: Animals are multi-celled organisms that digest their food inside their body.
Common Name: Red legged frog
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Genus: Rana
Species: aurora
Location: In the wet marshy areas of lakes and ponds
Common Name: Gray squirrel
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mamallia
Genus: Sciurus
Species: carolinensis
Location: In the trees and banks of Lakes and ponds.
Common Name: King Fisher
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Genus: Halcyon
Species: cyanoventris
Location: Fishing In Lakes and ponds.
Common Name: Ring shell snail
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Genus: Japonia
Species: insularis
Location: found in the moist dirt around Lakes
and ponds.
Common Name: Earthworms
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Oligochaeta
Order: Opisthopora
Genus: Komarekiona
Species: eatoni
Location: In the soil of lakes and ponds.
Common Name: Roundworm
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nemetatoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Aphelenchida Genus: Aphelenchoides
Species: besseyi
Location: In the intestines of other animals. Can
also be found elsewhere in the hosts body.
Common name: Giant Freshwater Crayfish
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order:Decapoda Genus: Astacopsis Species: Gouldi Location: In Freshwater Lakes and ponds usually hiding under weeds.
Common name: Alligator Gar
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata Class:Osteichthyes Order:Lepisosteiformes Genus:Atractosteus Species: Spatula Location: Usually lives in Oxbow lakes and sometimes strays into salt water as it is a fish of high salinity.
Common name: Pike, Northern Pike
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata Class: Osteichthyes Order: Esociformes Genus: Esox Species: lucius Location: Vegetated Lakes and Ponds. Usually a very territorial fish. Also usually lives deep in the water.
Common name: Crappie
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Chordata Class:Osteichthyes Order:Perciformes Genus: Pomoxis Species: nigromaculatus Location: Inhabit lakes and ponds. Usually hide in weeds under the water.
Common name: Leech
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Arhynchobdellida
Family: Hirudinidae
Genus: Hirudo
Species: medicinalis
Location: Hiding in the mud and/or weeds.
Common name: Freshwater Jellyfish
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Limnomedusae
Family: Olindiidae
Genus: Craspedacusta
Species: sowerbyi
Location: Just drifts around in the water so it can be anywhere in the lake or pond.
Monerans
Monerans are single celled organisms that have no nucleus or organelles. Monerans do not have a specific job instead they're individual cells that survive on their own but can become clusters or groups of cells.The kingdom Monera is separated into two different areas, Bacteria and Cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria is green and usually water based but can grow on wet rocks or in some wet soils. Bacteria can be good or bad, good bacteria is the bacteria that helps you digest. Bad bacteria is the bacteria that carries disease and makes you sick.Anabaena oumiana
Scientific name: Anabaena oumiana.
Shape: Cocci
Location: On the bottom of ponds and lakes.
Scientific name:Gloeocapsa magmaShape: Cocci
Location: On the banks of ponds and lakes.
Protists
Protists are complex single celled organisms although some are multi celled. Protists have a nucleus and organelles unlike Monerans. Protists are separated into two groups, Protozoan meaning animal like and Algae meaning plantlike.Anabaena flos-aquae
Definition: Algae is a plant like Protist. Algae has a cell wall and chlorophyl. Algae make their own food through photosynthesis and most live in water. Algae may live alone or in colonies of cells.
Scientific name: Anabaena flos- aquae
Information: this protist is a form of green algae.
Location: found in slow-moving lakes and ponds.
Type: algae
Peranema trichophorum
Definition: Protozoans are animal like Protists. Protozoans are single celled with no cell wall or chlorophyl. They take in food and move around. Some protozoans can't move on their own so they just enter the hosts cells.
Scientific name: Peranema trichophorum
Type: Protozoan
Location: In freshwater lake and ponds in the water.
Fungi Fungus are multi-celled organisms with no chlorophyll. Absorb nutrients from whatever they are on.
Definition: Cup shaped Fungus.
Scientific Name: Xylaria polymorpha
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Ascomycetes
Order: Xylariales
Family: Xylariaceae
Genus: Xylaria
Species: polymorpha
Location: Can be found on dead decaying trees in the woods
that can be found along lakes.
Definition: Club shaped- closely packed filaments.
Scientific Name: Amanita phalloides
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Pluteaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species: phalloides
Location: Along the shores of Lakes and ponds and in the
outer forests.
Definition: Cup shaped Fungus.
Scientific Name:Daldinia concentrica
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Ascomycetes
Order: Xylariales
Family: Xylariaceae
Genus: Daldinia
Species: concentrica
Location: Rotting trees surrounding Lakes and Ponds
Definition: microscopic fungus that grows on roots of plants.
Scientific Name: Glomus clarum
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum:Glomeromycota
Class: Glomeromycetes
Order: Glomerales
Family: Glomeraceae
Genus: Glomus
Species: Clarum
Location: On the roots of some plants surrounding lakes and ponds
Plants:
Plants are Multi-Celled organisms that have 2 groups. Non-vascular and Vascular. Non-vascular plants have no water conducting tissue, and they are close to the ground. Vascular plants have water conducting tissues through out the plant.Vascular/Liliopsida
Location: On the banks of lakes and ponds.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Typhales
Family: Typhaceae
Genus: Typha
Species: angustifolia
Vascular/Magnoliopsida
Location: Hanging over lakes and ponds.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Salicales
Family: Salicaceae
Genus: Salix
Species: alba
Non-Vascular/ Liliopsida
Location: A floating flower that can be found floating
or on the shore.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Pontederiales
Family: Pontederiaceae
Genus: Eichhornia
Species: crassipes
Non-vascular/Piperopsida
Location: In little groves around the shores of lakes and ponds.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Piperopsida
Order: Apocynales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Hoya
Species: kerrii
Non-Vascular/Bryopsida
Location: In wet places around lakes.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Order: Polytrichales
Family: Polytrichaceae
Genus: Polytrichum
Species: strictum
Vascular/Equisetopsida
Location: On the banks of lakes and ponds
or in the shallows of lakes and ponds
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Equisetales
Family: Equisetaceae
Genus: Equisetum
Species: hyemale
Location: can grow in slightly brackish water.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Blechnaceae
Genus: Woodwardia
Species: orientalis
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Isoetopsida
Order: Isoetales
Family: Isoetaceae
Genus: Isoetes
Species:tegetiformans
Kindom: Plantae
Phylum: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Order: Hypnales
Family: Sematophyllaceae
Genus: Heterophyllium
Species: affine
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Nymphaeales
Family: Noctuoidea
Genus: Cabomba
Species: haynesii
Kindom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Chenopodiaceae
Genus: Chenopodium
Species: rubrum
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Salviniales
Family: Marsileaceae
Genus: Pilularia
Species: americana
Animals: Animals are multi-celled organisms that digest their food inside their body.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Genus: Rana
Species: aurora
Location: In the wet marshy areas of lakes and ponds
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mamallia
Genus: Sciurus
Species: carolinensis
Location: In the trees and banks of Lakes and ponds.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Genus: Halcyon
Species: cyanoventris
Location: Fishing In Lakes and ponds.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Genus: Japonia
Species: insularis
Location: found in the moist dirt around Lakes
and ponds.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Oligochaeta
Order: Opisthopora
Genus: Komarekiona
Species: eatoni
Location: In the soil of lakes and ponds.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nemetatoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Aphelenchida
Genus: Aphelenchoides
Species: besseyi
Location: In the intestines of other animals. Can
also be found elsewhere in the hosts body.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Genus: Astacopsis
Species: Gouldi
Location: In Freshwater Lakes and ponds usually hiding under weeds.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Lepisosteiformes
Genus: Atractosteus
Species: Spatula
Location: Usually lives in Oxbow lakes and sometimes strays into salt water as it is a fish of high salinity.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Esociformes
Genus: Esox
Species: lucius
Location: Vegetated Lakes and Ponds. Usually a very territorial fish. Also usually lives deep in the water.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Perciformes
Genus: Pomoxis
Species: nigromaculatus
Location: Inhabit lakes and ponds. Usually hide in weeds under the water.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Arhynchobdellida
Family: Hirudinidae
Genus: Hirudo
Species: medicinalis
Location: Hiding in the mud and/or weeds.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Limnomedusae
Family: Olindiidae
Genus: Craspedacusta
Species: sowerbyi
Location: Just drifts around in the water so it can be anywhere in the lake or pond.
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