Limiting Factors
Important organisms
Relationships
Name that ecosystem
Vocabulary
100
This ecosystem is tropical and limited by light and nutrients
What is the coral reef
100
The keystone predator here is the sea otter.
What is the kelp forest?
100
Corals and anemones share mutualistic relationships with these:
What are zooxanthellae?
100
The least productive ecosystem in the ocean.
What is the open ocean or pelagic zone?
100
Organisms that live along the bottom
What is demersal
200
This ecosystem is temperate and limited by light and nutrients
What is the kelp forest
200
Dense growths of ___________ trees are found in estuaries located in tropical and subtropical zones.
What are mangrove?
200
Type of relationship exhibited by barnacles growing on a mussel shell.
What is commensalism?
200
Name one of two super productive ecosystems in the ocean.
What are estuaries or areas of upwelling?
200
Organisms that are microscopic and live in between grains of sediment.
What is meiofauna?
300
This ecosystem is limited by food availability
What is the hydrothermal vents?
300
These organisms build the infrastructure of the coral reef.
What are hermatypic corals
300
The relationship between Great white sharks and fur seals can best be described as___________.
What is predator/prey?
300
Another name for temperate rocky subtidal zones.
What is kelp forest?
300
Organisms that live attached to the bottom or right on top of the bottom.
What is epifauna?
400
This ecosystem is limited by tidal range, temperature, and salinity
What is the rocky intertidal zone
400
The Ochre Sea Star is the keystone predator here.
What is the rocky intertidal zone?
400
Type of relationship exhibited by a clownfish and anemone?
What is mutualism?
400
This ecosystem is not based on photosynthesis.
What is the hydrothermal vent?
400
Organisms that float at the surface of the ocean.
What is neuston?
500
This ecosystem is limited by salinity and turbidity
What are estuaries
500
There would be no life in the hydrothermal vents without these organisms.
What are chemosynthetic bacteria?
500
Type of symbiosis where one organism cannot live without its symbiont?
What is obligate mutualism?
500
This ecosystem is characterized by distinct vertical zonation.
What is the rocky intertidal zone?
500
Organisms that live in the sediment.
What are infauna?
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