Characteristics
Parts
Living Things
The Tropics
Saltwater Communities
100
The property of a system in balance
What is stability?
100
A system made up of living things and their environment
What is an ecosystem?
100
A living thing that breaks down dead plants or animals for food
What is a decomposer?
100
The average weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
100
The narrow strip of land that is covered by ocean water during high tides
What is the intertidal zone?
200
A group of parts that work as a unit
What is a system?
200
A group of organisms living together and interacting
What is a community?
200
A living thing that eats other living things
What is a consumer?
200
Refers to variety, such as of plants and animals
What is diversity?
200
The shallow area of ocean water that provides a habitat for many forms of life
What is the near-shore zone?
300
A place that meets an organism's needs
What is a habitat?
300
The role of an organism in its habitat
What is a niche?
300
A living thing that can make its own food
What is a producer?
300
Refers to the amount of salt in water
What is salinity?
300
The deepest part of the ocean
What is the open-ocean zone?
400
Things that leave a system, such as evaporation of rainwater
What are outputs?
400
A group of the same species living in the same place at the same time
What is a population?
400
A diagram that shows how different food chains connect and overlap
What is a food web?
400
Two ecosystems found near the equator that have a large variety of plants and animals
What are tropical rain forests and coral reefs?
400
Kelp forests, sea otters,and sea urchins are found in the cold, shallow waters of this ocean community
What is the near-shore zone?
500
Things that come from outside an open system, such as sunlight and rain
What are inputs?
500
An ecosystem that has mostly pine and spruce trees
What is an evergreen forest?
500
A diagram that shows how food energy is passed from one organism to another along a food chain
What is an energy pyramid?
500
Where most plant and animals live in a tropical rain forest
What is the canopy?
500
A salt marsh is found in this saltwater community
What is the intertidal zone?
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