Interdependence
Biotic factors are ____________ things.
What is living thing?
The first trophic level in a food web, food chain, or energy pyramid. Examples are plants.
What is a producer?
A behavior or body structure of an organism to help it survive in its environment is called a(n):
What is an adaptation?
A single, linear path showing the flow of energy from the sun to producer and through different levels of consumers.
What is a food chain?
The 6 reasons humans depend on the ocean.
What are food, transportation, natural resources, recreation, and oxygen?
Abiotic factors are ____________ things.
What is nonliving thing?
Phytoplankton/ shrimp and grasses/ rabbit are examples of this type of relationship.
What are producer/ consumer relationships?
Definition: An environmental change that occurs slowly over time and affects organisms over generations. Example is global warming.
What is a long term environmental change?
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
Pollution, runoff, and urbanization are examples of these.
What are human impacts on the oceans?
The 5 major abiotic factors are:
What is water, air, soil composition, temperature, and (sun)light?
The three types of symbiotic relationships are:
What are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
Forest fires, oils spills, and floods are examples of these types of changes.
What is short term environmental change?
An ecosystem that is located in bodies of water.
What is an aquatic ecosystem?
This marine organism accounts for 90% of the world's oxygen supply.
What are phytoplankton?
The 4 major biotic factors are:
What are plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi?
These organisms, usually last in a food chain, consume dead organisms and release nutrients back into the Earth.
What are decomposers?
If a species cannot adapt to an environment after a change, this will happen to that species.
What is go extinct?
A human-made underwater structure that promotes the growth of reef-dwelling aquatic organisms.
What is artificial reef?
What effect are commercial fishing and overfishing having on the marine food webs?
Commercial and over fishing are causing marine food chains and food webs to collapse due to the missing trophic levels.
The 3 major ecosystems of the world are:
What are Freshwater. Marine, and Terrestrial ecosystems?
This tool, used to show energy transfers through living systems, is linear and shows trophic levels ranging from producer to apex predator.
What is a food chain?
This long term environmental change is the reason for warmer temperatures across the globe and the ice caps melting, causing sea levels to rise and species to die out.
What is global warming?
Rainfall and surface water that drain or flow from the land into streams, rivers, lakes, or the ocean.
What is runoff?
FINAL JEOPARDY: Regulate marine ecosystems, storing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen are a few of the ocean's functions. Name the last function.
What is regulating climate?