Fresh Water Life Zones
The two major regions aquatic regions can be broken into.
What is marine and freshwater?
Is the basis of the aquatic food chain.
What is phytoplankton?
The largest of all marine ecosystems.
What is the Ocean?
Are non-competitive, highly efficient and help to achieve balance in an ecosystem.
Symbiotic Relationships
Occurs when one species keeps resources away from another
What is Interference Competition?
Referred to as still water
What is lentic?
Eat primary consumers
What is a secondary consumer?
Is where the ocean meets the land.
What is an intertidal zone?
Resources are divided among individuals for survival.
What is resource partitioning?
When one species depletes a resource before another organism has chance to use it.
What is exploitation competition?
Lakes and ponds are divided into three levels
What is the littoral, limnetic, and and profundal zone?
Shows the flow of energy from one organism to the next.
What is a food chain?
Is typically large enough to be seen by the naked eye, such as sea weeds, mangrove trees, and marsh grasses.
What is macroflora?
A relationship where both organism benefit.
What is mutualism?
Competition that occur within the same species.
What is intraspecific?
Referred to as the start of a river.
What is the headwaters?
Levels within the food chain where an organism obtains it's energy.
What are trophic levels?
The mixing of waters with the such different salt concentrations, creates a very interesting and unique ecosystems.
What is an estuary?
(-,+)
What is parasitism?
Competition that occurs between two species.
What is interspecific?
List examples of hydrophytes.
What is pond lilies, cat tails, sedges, tamarack, and black spruce?
Within a ecosystem, the energy flow between trophic levels does not remain constant
What is energy flow between organisms -pyramid?
A coral reef that grows around the remains of a sunken island.
What is atolls?
What is a herbivore?
Interaction between organisms or species in which both the organisms or species are harmed.
What is competition?