Question

You are trying to help a friend sort some specimens in her lab. She collected organisms from a lake and forgot to label the sample with the part of the lake from which they were taken. Please select the item below that is correctly matched with its collection zone.

a. periphyton labeled "open water"
b. phytoplankton labeled "littoral zone"
c. anaerobic bacteria labeled "limnetic zone"
d. zooplankton labeled "limnetic zone"
e. cattails (emergent plants) labeled "profundal zone"

Answer 1

D. zooplankton labeled "limnetic zone"

Step-by-step explanation:

the zone called the limnetic zone is a well lighted and open zone in a body of fresh water such as the lake or the pond. this zone has the plankton in dominance. both the phytoplankton and the zooplankton. plankton play an important role in the food chain.

zooplankton are primary consumers in this limnetic zone. zooplankton consists of rotifers and copecod