Debris that falls from the top of the water deep into the halal zone to provide nutrients for organisms there
What is marine snow?
100
Relation ship between organisms between 2 different species
What is interspecific?
100
An organism being made of the smallest unit of life
What is being made up of cells?
100
Population growth that is rapid to begin with, then levels out to stay within the carrying capacity of an ecosystem
What is logistical growth?
100
The study of ecosystems
What is ecology?
200
Metabolic process in which a plant converts energy from sunlight into usable glucose
What is photosynthesis?
200
Very close interspecific relationship between 2 or more organisms
What is symbiosis?
200
An organism's ability to create offspring
What is reproduction?
200
The growth of a population that increases by a greater amount as time continues
What is exponential growth?
200
Non-living pieces of an ecosystem
What is abiotic?
300
The death of a whale or fish that falls to the deep ocean to provide nutrients to organisms in the hadal zone
What is a whale fall?
300
Symbiosis where both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
300
The change of an organism's size and appearance over time
What is growth and development?
300
The number of organisms an ecosystem can sustain indefinitely
What is carrying capacity (k)?
300
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
400
Process that occurs in the deep sea where chemicals are converted into nutrients, without any energy from the sun
What is chemosynthesis?
400
Symbiosis where one organism is harmed but the other remains neutral
What is commensalism?
400
An organism protecting itself by changing something when something happens
What is reaction to stimuli?
400
A rate of usage of resources that is equal to or less than the rate of reproduction of these resources
What is sustainable use?
400
The two parts of the Linnaean classification that make up an organism's scientific name
What are genus and species?
500
The excess run-off from land into the ocean that causes an agal bloom , which leads to mass death of algae, and then a deprivation of oxygen when decomposers rid the water of the algae
What is eutrophication?
500
Symbiosis where both organisms are harmed
What is competition?
500
The ability to maintain stable conditions
What is homeostasis?
500
Factors that are affected by the number of organisms living in an area
What are density-dependent factors?
500
"Greenhouse" gasses or gasses that have a high heat-capacity being trapped in the atmosphere and restrict heat from leaving the atmosphere