Plankton, Nekton, or Benthos
Coral
What is a benthos?
This zone of the ocean experiences consistent sunlight and sit atop the continental shelf
What is the neritic zone?
A shell is an example of this kind of adaptation
What is a physical adaptation?
What is a producer?
This habitat is found in shallow, tropical waters where sunlight can reach the bottom of the ocean
What is a coral reef?
Whales
What are nekton?
The conditions in this zone of the ocean are constantly changing
What is the intertidal zone?
To escape the physical battering of the waves, some intertidal creatures will do this in the sand
What is burrow?
The name for a creature that eats other organisms
What is a consumer?
This habitat is found along the western coast of North America in the neritic zone, where the waters are cold and the ocean floor is rocky
What is a kelp forest?
Algae
What is plankton?
In this part of the open-ocean, there is absolutely no sunlight
What is the deep zone (midnight zone)?
In the deep ocean, organisms have developed this property, which is the ability to produce light
What is bioluminescence?
Sea urchins would completely destroy kelp forests were it not for this animal, which dives down to the ocean floor and hunts them
What is the sea otter?
Kelp
This part of the open-ocean extends from the edge of sunlight's penetration into the water to a depth of 1000m
What is the transition (twilight) zone?
An octopus has this physical adaptation, which allows it to stick to surfaces as waves crash into the shore
What are suction cups?
The name for a creature that consumes and breaks down dead creatures
What is a decomposer?
This habitat is found in the deep ocean, usually along tectonic boundaries, where chemicals from the deep earth enter the ocean
What is a hydrothermal vent?
Squid
What is nekton?
This zone of the ocean has the greatest abundance of life
What is the neritic zone?
One reason shells are so helpful in the intertidal zone is that they act as a shield against the crashing waves. However, they also allow creatures to do this
What is stay wet? / What is conserve water?
The name for a creature in a food web that is not eaten by any other creature, but eats other creatures
What is an apex predator?
At hydrothermal vents, there is no sunlight and thus no plants, so bacteria have developed the ability to convert chemicals into food, which goes by this name
What is chemosynthetic / chemosynthesis?