Symbiotic Relationships
The type of relationship where both species benefit
What is Mutualism?
The animal eaten by predators.
What is prey?
This refers to the feeding levels of an organism and its position in a food chain/web.
What is Trophic level?
The term for any organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
What is a producer?
The process by which a body of water becomes enriched in dissolved nutrients
What is eutrophication?
The type of relationship where one benefits and one is neither helped or harmed
What is commensalism?
Animals which hunt, kill, and eat other animals.
What is a predator?
The type of organism found at the 1st tropic level.
What is primary producer?
The most common type of marine producers responsible for the ocean's oxuegn creation.
What are phytoplankton?
Eutrophication is caused by an increase of this nutrients.
What is nitrogen?
This stinging animal provides a home for clownfish, while the clownfish defends it and lures prey.
What is a sea anemone?
This type of interaction helps control population sizes and keeps ecosystems balanced.
What is the predator/prey relationship?
The organism at the top of the food chain that does not have any natural predators?
What is the top level consumer/apex predator?
The two things needed by ocean producers for photosynthesis.
What is sunlight and carbon dioxide?
The rapid increase in nutrients can cause this "bloom".
What is an algal bloom?
The relationship between coral and this organism is considered mutualistic.
What is Zooxanthellae?
In the ocean, sea otters eat urchins, keeping their population in check. This makes sea otters the ___ and sea urchins the ___.
What are predator and prey?
The tropic level that consists of secondary consumers.
What is the 3rd Tropic Level?
The producer that grows in dense underwater forests and provides food and shelter for organisms.
What is kelp?
This term describes water with low oxygen levels which can cause fish to de.
What is hypoxia?
In the parasitic relationship between the isopod and the fish, the isopod replaces this part of the fishes body.
What is the tongue?
Groups of sardines swim close together to avoid being eaten by tuna. Tuna is considered this in the ocean.
What is a predator?
The arrow in a food web represent this.
What is the direction of transfer of energy and biomass?
This type of producer uses chemicals from hydrothermal vent to make food.
What are chemosynthetic bacteria?
The process where increased rainfall brings nutrients to the ocean.
What is runoff?