aquatic life
Organisms inhabiting water
Aquatic life refers collectively to organisms that live in water—fish, plants, invertebrates, mammals, and microorganisms inhabiting oceans, lakes, rivers, and wetlands.
The term appears most often in environmental and conservation contexts: The oil spill devastated aquatic life along the coast.
It encompasses both freshwater and marine ecosystems.
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
- school of fishCollective of swimming creatures
- sea creaturesAnimals inhabiting oceans
- coralMarine skeletal formation
- coral reefCalcium carbonate marine ecosystem
tide pool · seaweed · ocean · salt water · open water · reef · marine · marine biology · underwater · dolphins · whales · sharks · jellyfish · plankton · tide · waves · fins · gills
- freshwater sciencefreshwater lakes, lake management, lake depth, water chemistry, dissolved oxygen
- ocean lifeocean, sea, sea creatures, shark, whale
- African wetlandsswamps, floodplains, lagoons, papyrus, reeds
- river ecosystemsfloodplains, tributaries, oxbow lakes, backwaters, riverbanks
- water pollutionsewage, industrial waste, contaminants, algal bloom, toxic waste
- water educationwater cycle, water testing, water sampling, water analysis, river ecosystems
habitat medium
aquatic lifeland dwellers
desert life · desert dwellers · burrowing animals · cave dwellers · landlubbers
aquatic, aqua, aquarium, aquariums, aqueous, aquifer, aquifers, aquaculture, aqualung