The climate of freshwater biomes is determined by by a number of factors including location, season and depth of water as the most prominent ones (W2). On average the temperatures will decline as the water gets deeper.
America continues to get heavier. An analysis of data collected from 2007 to 2012 has found that 71 percent of Americans are obese or overweight. The picture is slightly worse for men, three-fourths of whom are overweight or obese. About 67 percent of women fall into one of those two categories. In all, nearly 35 percent of Americans are overweight, meaning that they have a body mass index between 25 and 29.9. This metric is a generally reliable way of estimating body fat percentage, though it can overestimate fat in athletes and those with a particularly muscular build.
And nearly 30 percent of U.S. children and teens are either obese or overweight, up from 19 percent in 1980. Thatâs nearly twice as many as in Europe. Just 4 percent of kids in the Netherlands or Sweden are overweight.he survey finds that 160 million Americans are either obese or overweight. The U.S. has 78 million obese adults, the highest number of any country in the world, even China, with four times the population. Nearly three-quarters of American men and more than 60 percent of women are obese or overweight, it finds.