Vocabulary
The zone at the shoreline, between the highest high tide and the lowest low tide
What is the intertidal zone?
The biome with the highest temperature
What is desert?
The deepest ocean zone (6,000 meters and deeper)
What is the hadalpelagic zone?
A consumer that only eats plants
What is an herbivore?
The source of energy from most ecosystems
What is sunlight?
The open ocean below the surface zone (200 meters and deeper)
What is the deep ocean?
The biome with the most rainfall
What is tropical rainforest?
Conditions of the deep ocean
A consumer that eats only meat?
What is a carnivore?
The quantity of energy lost to metabolic processes and heat from one trophic level to the next.
What is 90%?
Ocean from lowest low tide to the edge of the continental shelf.
What is the neritic zone?
The biome with the least rainfall
What is desert?
Factors in the Neritic Zone that allow for photosynthesis to occur
Consumer that eats meat AND plants
What is an herbivore?
Where coral reefs and kelp forests are found
What is the Neritic zone?
Free-swimming animals in the ocean
The biome with the lowest temperature
What is tundra?
A unique feature found only at the bottom of the ocean
What are hydrothermal vents and their communities?
Consumer that prevents the spread of disease by clearing carrion from the environment
What is a scavenger?
A place where organisms live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
Animals that live/crawl on the ocean floor
What are benthos
Conditions that allow organisms within hydrothermal vent communities to survive
What are hot vent water and chemosynthesis?
The shallowest zone in the open ocean (0-2,000 meters)
What is the surface zone?
Make vital nutrients available to an ecosystem by breaking down dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
The two inorganic inputs producers use to make their own food
What is sunlight and chemicals?