Classification
Aquatic ecosystem
Ecology
Populations
Populations
100
This kingdom is composed of heterotrophic, multicellular eukaryotes.
What is Animalia/Animals?
100
Composed of a mixture of salt and fresh water; its where we live.
What is an Estuary?
100
Another term for a autotroph.
What is a producer?
100
The number of individuals per unit area.
What is population density?
100
Limiting factors that are influenced by the number of organisms.
What is density-DEPENDENT limiting factors?
200
This kingdom is composed of autotrophic, multicellular eukaryotes.
What is Plantae/Plants?
200
The floor of the ocean where little light reaches to allow for photosynthesis.
What is the benthic layer?
200
Another term for a heterotroph.
What is a consumer?
200
Three factors that can influence population growth.
What are birthrate, death rate, and movement in/out of an area?
200
Examples of density DEPENDENT limiting factors.
What are competition, predation, disease, and stress?
300
This kingdom is composed of unicellular prokaryotes.
What are Eubacteria?
300
The layer of the aquatic ecosystem that allows for photosynthesis.
What is the photic layer?
300
Consumers that eat only other animals as their primary food source.
What is a carnivore?
300
The movement INTO an area.
What is immigration?
300
Limiting factors that are NOT reliant on the number of organisms.
What are density INDEPENDENT limiting factors?
400
This kingdom is composed of unicellular eukaryotes.
What is Protista?
400
These organisms provide the main food source in an aquatic food web; also produces most of the Earth's oxygen.
What are plankton?
400
Consumers that eat only autotrophs as their primary food source.
What is an herbivore?
400
The movement OUT OF an area.
What is emigration?
400
Examples of density INDEPENDENT limiting factors.
What are weather events and natural disasters?
500
Another name for an evolutionary tree that shows relationships among organisms.
What is a cladogram?
500
The movement of water from aquatic systems into the clouds as part of the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
500
A complex relationship of feeding interactions often found in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
500
The maximum number of individuals that a particular environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
500
The first organism that appears after destruction of an ecosystem.
What is a pioneer species?
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