Key Terms
The careful study of the wonders of the universe
What is science
The reservoir at the bottom of a volcano vent that contains the liquid magma
What is the magma chamber
Close relationship between two organisms
What is symbiosis
All segmented worms
What are flagellates
Organisms in the neritic zone that drift along with ocean currents
What are plankton
The condition of the atosphere at a given time
What is weather
An island parallel to the mainland's shore
What is a barrier island
Symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit
What is mutualism
The law of biogenesis states that living things can come only from
What are living things
The part of the intertidal zone that only experiences the ocean occasionally
What is the splash region
The next step in the hydrolic cycle after evaporation
What is condensation
The practice of harvesting all the trees from a designated area at once
What is clear-cutting
A negative symbiotic relationship in which ones orgaism is harmed
What is parasitism
A certian range of abiotic factors in which an organism can survive
What is an tolerance range
The part of the intertidal zone that experiences equal times of being covered and uncovered by water
What is the middle region
All the organisms of one species in an ecosystem
What is a population
The four inner planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and this other planet
What is Mars
Relationship in which one organism hunts, kills, and eats another organism
What is predation
A job and place of an organism within it habitat
What is a niche
A saltwater biome is an aquatic biome having at least this amount of disolved salt
What is 3 1/2 percent
This model combines food chains to show all possible feeding relationships at each food chain level
What is a food web/ food pyramid
The settling of sediments at new locations
What is deposition
Relationship in which two organisms struggle against one another for the same limited resources
What is competition
A biome that is treeless beause of permafrost or elevation
What is a tundra
Many whale pecies travel together in a group
What is called a pod
A species that cna no longer be found alive on the earth
What is extinct
A weaker high tide that occurs when the sun's gravity and the moon's gravity oppose one another
What is neap tide
The living part of a seed that is the beginning of a new plant
What is an embryo
The biome containing mostly coniferous trees
What is the borreal forest biome
A spiny-skinned invertebrate with radial symmetry
What is a starfish
Food- making process in green plants
What is photosynthesis
The fourth layer of the atmosphere that contians the hottest temperatures
What is the thermosphere
The outermost boundary of a plant cell's membrane
What is the cell wall
This is a kind of giant algae
What is kelp
A kind of seafloor mud made from minerals and the remains of tiny ocean organisms
What is ooze
Detritus falling through water toward the sea floor
What is marine snow
The innermost part of the Earth
What is the core
Organisms with only one cell
What s unicellular
A plant that grows under the trees of a forest
What is undergrowth
The vertical zones of the ocean are determined by
What is depth of water