Saltwater Habitats
Shallow tropical marine ecosystem dominated by salt-tolerant trees.
What is a mangrove forest?
Organisms that eat plants are at this trophic level.
What is a primary consumer?
Shallow parts of the oceans where rooted plants and algae are found.
What are littoral zones?
These organisms make energy from sunlight or from chemicals.
What are autotrophs?
Predatory animals that builds enormous structures that provide habitat for many other organisms.
What are corals?
Deep ocean ecosystem with chemosynthetic bacteria as the base of the food web.
Autotrophs are at this trophic level.
What is primary producer?
Open water area of the oceans.
What is the pelagic zone?
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed."
What is the 1st law of thermodynamics?
These organisms provide the color for corals.
What are symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae)?
Shallow habitats between low and high tides.
What are intertidal zones?
The lowest trophic level for an organism that eats carnivores.
What is tertiary consumer?
Ocean zone that has a bottom. It can be deep or shallow.
What is the benthic zone?
These types of organisms are named for the fact that they eat other organisms.
What are heterotrophs?
Organisms that eat dead organisms by digesting them outside of their bodies.
What are decomposers?
Extremely diverse habitat where freshwater from a river enters a saltwater ecosystem.
What is an estuary?
Animals that eat herbivores.
What are secondary consumers?
The shallower parts of the pelagic zone.
What is the neritic zone?
Energy can be converted from one type to another.
What is the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
Organisms that cannot swim against the current and photosynthesize.
What are phytoplankton?
This habitat is the temperate equivalent of a mangrove forest.
What is a salt marsh?
True or false: some organisms can feed at more than one trophic level.
What is true?
Deeper parts of the pelagic zone.
What is the oceanic zone?
Organisms that eat dead things by digesting them inside of their bodies.
What are detritivores?
Organisms that can swim against the current.
What are nekton?