Types of Interactions
This type of interaction sees two marine animals fighting over something such as food, territory, etc.
Competition
This layer within the ocean sees the most light and thus creates energy for plants by photosynthesis.
Epipelagic
This animal's home is the anemone and hides within this home for shelter and protection.
Clownfish
Basically the epipelagic zone or simply wherever there is an abundance of natural sunlight to promote growth in life can also be called the _____ zone. Photosynthesis occurs quite a bit in this zone.
Photic Zone
This type of interaction sees one marine animal use another animal for some sort of benefit while harming the host in the process.
Parasitism
This layer within the ocean is extremely dark and the only light created is from animals that are bioluminescent.
Bathypelagic.
This animal is a certain type of eight limbed creature that has the same name as a famous elephant and found within the abyssal layer deep in the ocean.
Dumbo Octopus
A branch of biology that deals with the relationship of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
Ecology
This type of interaction sees both marine animals benefit from their situation and essentially help one another out.
Mutualism
This layer has no natural light what so ever and consists of the trenches such as the Mariana Trench we see in our ocean.
Hadalpelagic/Hadal
This animal is the biggest animal that currently exists on the planet.
Sperm Whale
Communication or direct involvement with someone or something, in this instance referring to other animals.
Interaction
This type of interaction happens over a longer period of time and sees one marine animal gains some sort of benefit for itself while the other is unaffected.
Commensalism
This layer is also named the "Twilight Zone" and is complex due to its lack of plant life, strange sea creatures, and having animals that create their own type of light.
Mesopelagic
This animal loves to swim at all layers of the ocean, using its tentacles for a sense of direction and is almost translucent.
Jellyfish
The bottom four layers or simply the areas where there is not enough natural sunlight to promote growth in any kind of life are called the ____ zone.
Aphotic Zone
This type of interaction sees a flow of energy between two marine animals in which we see one gain energy and the other loses energy based upon the outcome of their interaction.
Predator/Prey
This layer's name has origins in the Greek language and loosely translates to "no bottom".
Abyssopelagic.
This animal can be found in the deepest part of the ocean's trenches and can withstand the old temperatures down there. It is also home to some other sea creatures we previously mentioned when found not as deep.
Sea Anemone
Topographic depressions of the sea floor, relatively narrow in width, but very long. These oceanographic features are the deepest parts of the ocean floor.
Trenches