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More than 700 species of fish live In Fresh Water biomes like lakes and ponds. Ponds and lakes are not very deep. Freshwater biomes are home to many nutrients and minerals. The Florida Everglades is the biggest freshwater biome in the world. Usually, freshwater biomes are fairly small.

The types of plants that live in freshwater biomes vary quite a lot. These plants have to live close to the sunlight.

The average rainfall in this biome would be 30-60in. of rain per Month.Most of this rain would come in the spring time. The Climate temperatures would be around 35 degrees F in winter time and in the mid 50 degrees in the fall and spring (being a fairly cool temperature) and the the summer time it would be in the low 70 degrees.

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More than 700 species of fish live In Fresh Water biomes like lakes and ponds. Ponds and lakes are not very deep. Freshwater biomes are home to many nutrients and minerals. The Florida Everglades is the biggest freshwater biome in the world. Usually, freshwater biomes are fairly small.

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More than 700 species of fish live In Fresh Water biomes like lakes and ponds. Ponds and lakes are not very deep. Freshwater biomes are home to many nutrients and minerals. The Florida Everglades is the biggest freshwater biome in the world. Usually, freshwater biomes are fairly small.

The types of plants that live in freshwater biomes vary quite a lot. These plants have to live close to the sunlight.

The average rainfall in this biome would be 30-60in. of rain per Month.Most of this rain would come in the spring time. The Climate temperatures would be around 35 degrees F in winter time and in the mid 50 degrees in the fall and spring (being a fairly cool temperature) and the the summer time it would be in the low 70 degrees.

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More than 700 species of fish live In Fresh Water biomes like lakes and ponds. Ponds and lakes are not very deep. Freshwater biomes are home to many nutrients and minerals. The Florida Everglades is the biggest freshwater biome in the world. Usually, freshwater biomes are fairly small.

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Freshwater Animals

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Freshwater

Lakes and rivers are created by streams high in the mountains that flow down when evaporated sea water falls as rain. The majority of the water that evaporates out of the ocean disappears into the atmosphere but the rest falls as rain into the freshwater rivers and then back into the sea. Streams, rivers and lakes are home to countless animal species all around the world.

There are two different types of freshwater habitat which are rivers and lakes. Although lakes are often fed by a small stream or river, they are often enclosed areas and can also include species that are found in nowhere else in the world. Rivers tend to contain large animals that can cope with the strong currents, along with other animals such as as crabs and birds that eat the fish beneath the water's surface.

The 3 Great Lakes in Africa are home to a surprising variety of one type of fish. Cichlids are colourful tropical fish that are only found in Africa's Great Lakes and in a couple of places in South America. There are an estimated nearly 3,000 different species of cichlid found in these 3 lakes alone, that vary in drastically from one another in size, colour and shape.

Freshwater rivers are often home a wide variety of species from insects, to amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds and even mammals. Turtles, ducks, otters, crocodiles, catfish, dragonfly and crabs can be found in rivers all around the world, and the Amazon river is even home to the rare and pink, freshwater dolphin. An extraordinary number of different fish species can also been found in rivers and streams all over the world.

Freshwater lakes also support a huge variety of wildlife from birds and insects that can spend their entire lives in the same place, to larger birds and mammals that appear there momentarily to have a drink or find something to eat. Fish species can often be specially adapted to life in each lake and numerous amphibians can often be found amongst them. Large herbivores such as deer, zebras and giraffe can be found coming to lakes to drink along with primates such as apes and monkeys.

Freshwater habitats (particularly rivers) can be drastically affected by human activity. Chemicals used in foods and medicines can contaminate the water along with waste water containing pesticides from agriculture. These water changes affect many species that inhabit the water from the plants and fish to the predators that eat them.

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Lakes and rivers are created by streams high in the mountains that flow down when evaporated sea water falls as rain. The majority of the water that evaporates out of the ocean disappears into the atmosphere but the rest falls as rain into the freshwater rivers...

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The freshwater biome is made up of any of body of water that is made of freshwater such as lakes, ponds, streams, and rivers. They cover roughly 20% of the Earth and are in various locations spread out all over the world. Most freshwater biomes consist of moving water and contain many types of fish.

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The Basics of Freshwater: Crash Course Kids 14.1

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The Water Bodies | The Dr. Binocs Show | Educational Videos For Kids

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Thousands of red lotus flowers bloom each October in Lake Nong Harn in eastern Thailand.

What is Freshwater?

Rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, and streams are all freshwater habitats. So are wetlands like swamps, which have woody plants and trees; and marshes, which have no trees but lots of grasses and reeds. Freshwater accounts for only three percent of the world's water. (The rest is saltwater.) But despite that tiny amount, freshwater habitats are homes for more than 100,000 species of plants and animals.

More Than Fish

Fish living in freshwater habitats have plenty of company. Snails, worms, turtles, frogs, marsh birds, mollusks, alligators, beavers, otters, snakes, and many types of insects live there too. Some unusual animals, like the river dolphin and the diving bell spider, are freshwater creatures. Plants such as algae, cattails, water lilies, and aspen and willow trees help keep the water clean by using their root systems to filter pollution and excess nutrients from the water.

A Place for Water

Lakes are formed by different acts of nature. Many appeared after glaciers moved across Earth during the last ice age, between 12,000 and 1.8 million years ago, and left giant bowl-shaped hollows in the land that filled with rainwater and runoff. Others were created when Earth's crust shifted, leaving grooves and ridges to catch water. And sometimes when a volcano erupts, all the magma flows out. If the land collapses into the empty crater, it leaves holes that can turn into huge lakes. Crater Lake in Oregon was made this way.

Rivers are created when melting snow or ice runs down mountains, following the grooves and channels of the land on the way to the sea-rivers always flow to an ocean. Wetlands, areas where the land is covered with water most of the time, often form in the land surrounding rivers that flood, or in areas where groundwater seeps up through the bedrock underneath the soil. Bedrock is made of different types of rocks like granite, sandstone and limestone. Water can seep through the cracks between these rocks, and it can dissolve limestone. Beavers can even create wetlands by building dams on rivers and streams.

Famous Freshwaters

The largest freshwater habitat in the world is the Everglades, a 1.5 million acre wetlands in southern Florida. The Amazon River in South America begins in the Andes Mountains and goes 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to the Atlantic Ocean; it flows through six countries, including Peru and Ecuador. Lake Baikal in Siberia, a region in Russia, is the world's biggest lake. This North Asian body of water contains one-fifth of all the freshwater on the planet.

So whether you're a hungry turtle, a pollutant-sucking plant, or a thirsty human who also likes to play in the water, freshwater habitats are vital ecosystems for our planet!

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Thousands of red lotus flowers bloom each October in Lake Nong Harn in eastern Thailand. What is Freshwater? Rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, and streams are all freshwater habitats. So are wetlands like swamps, which have woody plants and trees; and marshes, which have no trees but lots of grasses and reeds.