What are living things that make food using sunlight (photosynthesis)
100
Primary, Secondary, Tertiery
What are the levels of consumers
100
Biotic components
What are the living things that shape an ecosystem
100
An animal that keeps an ecosystem clean by eating the dead bodies of animals.
What is a scavenger
100
Open ocean ecosystem
What is the largest ecosystem on earth
200
phytoplankton and seaweeds (large algae)
What are producers
200
Primary Consumers
What are animals that only eat producers
200
Abiotic components
What are the nonliving components of an ecosystem
200
Crabs, lobsters, eels and great white sharks
What are scavengers
200
consists of all of the living and non-living components of a selected environment including fish, plants, rocks, sand and water and the interactions among them
What is an ecosystem
300
Large kelp forests
What is a food source for small animals (snails and sea urchins)
300
Secondary Consumers
What are animals that eat primary consumers
300
Fish, seaweed and krill
What are biotic components of an ocean ecosystem
300
Organisms that break down the final remains of living things
What are decomposers
300
Oceans alone provide _______ of the world’s oxygen supply
What is one half
400
"the plants of the sea"
What is phytoplankton
400
Tertiary Consumers
What are animals that eat secondary consumers
400
rocks, sunlight, water temperature
What are abiotic components of an ocean ecosystem
400
Bacteria, fungi, marine worms, sea slugs, sea worms and brittle stars and shrimp
What are decomposers
400
Recreation, employment, industrial growth, resource development
What are ways that humans impact the ocean ecosystem