Food Web
Estuary
Trophic Levels
Parameters
Ocean
100
predator
What is animal which hunts another animal for food?
100
Estuary
What is a partially enclosed body of water where two different bodies of water meet and mix
100
Producer
What is an organism that manufactures its own food by photosynthesis.
100
Dissolved oxygen
What is amount of oxygen dissolved in a given volume of water at a particular temperature
100
Tide
What is the periodic rise and fall of the ocean water due to the gravitational pull of the moon and sun?
200
consumer
What is the term for an animal which obtains food by eating other living things?
200
Environment
What is the external surroundings in which a plant or animal lives.
200
Phytoplankton
What are microscopic photosynthesizing organisms the drift with the currents
200
Salinity
What is the concentration of salts dissolved in salt water.
200
Barrier beach
What is a spit of sand which forms parallel to the shore?
300
Prey
What is an organism that is hunted for food by another organism
300
Ecosystem
What is the biotic community with its abiotic environment
300
Consumer
What is an organism that feeds upon something else.
300
Solubility
What is the ability to dissolve; a measure of how much of one substance is dissolved in another material?
300
Lagoon
What is a small body of water separated from a larger body of water by narrow land or reefs?
400
Food pyramid
What is the level within a food pyramid demonstrating an organism’s place in the feeding order within an ecosystem.
400
Habitat
What is the particular part of the environment where a plant or animal naturally lives
400
Photosynthesis
What is the process by which plants manufacture food energy from sunlight and carbon dioxide
400
Temperature
What is the measure of the average amount of kinetic energy, or energy of motion, in a material?
400
Spring Tide
What is the strong tide which occurs when the Earth, moon, and sun are in a line, as during a new moon or full moon
500
Trophic level
What is the level within a food pyramid demonstrating an organism’s place in the feeding order within an ecosystem.
500
Biome
What is a major ecological community, extending over a large area and usually characterized by a dominant vegetation
500
Decomposer
What is a microorganism that breaks down dead tissue and returns nutrients to the ecosystem
500
Turbidity
What is the measure of relative clarity of a liquid, or how clear the liquid is
500
Neap tide
What is the weak tide which occurs when the forces of the moon and sun are at right angles to each other, as during the quarter moons?
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