Life in the Sea
Organisms that make their own food.
What is a producer?
These organisms are the decomposers for most environments.
What are bacteria?
The number of organisms found on Earth.
What is five million?
The Greek word for drifter.
What is plankton?
The Greek word for "cut in two"
What is diatom?
Animals that eat plants.
What are herbivores?
The amount of energy that gets transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
Reflects evolutionary relationships between organisms.
What is phylogenetic classification?
This type of organism needs to be near the surface.
What is phytoplankton?
The percentage of oxygen produced by phytoplankton on earth.
What is 80%?
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
This represents the transfer of energy when one organism eats another
What is a food chain?
The beginning of life on Earth.
What is 3 billion years ago?
Fish larvae are classified as this type of organism.
What is zooplankton?
This organism resembles both plant and animal plankton.
What are dinoflagellates?
Life probably originated in this environment.
What is the Ocean?
These microscopic plants form the first link in most marine food chains.
What are diatoms?
The largest and most general classification of organisms.
What is Kingdom?
Many planktonic organisms produce this to help them float.
What is oil?
The two species of dinoflagellates are responsible for "red tide".
What are Gonyaulax and Gymnodinium?
Plants that don't have roots, stems, or leaves.
What are marine plants?
The Decomposers provide these essential nutrients for all producers.
What are nitrogen and phosphorous?
This was probably one of the first organisms on Earth.
What is a protozoan?
A glass like substance found in the cell wall of diatoms.
What is silica?
The toxic effect produced by shellfish that ingest red tide dinoflagellates.
What is paralytic shellfish poisoning?