Studying Ecosystems
Adapting to the Rocky Shore
Environmental Stresses
Vocabulary
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100
Name the three levels of consumers
What is primary, secondary, tertiary
100
These are predatory animals with five or more rays extending from the central disk.
What is sea star
100
Barnacles do this to survive during long periods of extreme dryness
What is seal their shells shut to keep the water in
100
The place where the land and water meet
What is shore
100
A change in a physical or chemical trait that helps an organism survive
What is adaptation
200
Humans have caused this because of pollution and over fishing.
What is environmental threat
200
This is how sea stars reproduce
What is sexually and asexually
200
This causes Earth to have two oceanic bulges.
What is The Moon and inertia
200
The alternating rise and fall of the sea with respect to land
What is tide
200
A community of different species that depend on interacting with others and their physical environment for survival
What is ecosystem
300
These are the three main categories of organisms on the food web
What is producer, consumers, and decomposers
300
Male and female sea stars do this in order to reproduce sexually.
What is spawn, [release egg and sperm cells into the environment]
300
Conduction is when there is _______ _______ with the heat source.
What is direct contact
300
Heat transfer where warmer less dense substances rise, and cooler denser substances sink to the bottom.
What is convection
300
A visual that shows the network of food chains in an ecosystem
What is food web
400
A relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is symbiosis
400
Name four adaptions of the sea star
What is spines, water-vascular system, sieve plate, tube feet, regeneration, eyespots on each ray, stomach extends outside the body.
400
Name the four intertidal zones
What is What is splash, high intertidal, mid-intertidal, and low intertidal zones
400
Anything that can cause harm to an ecosystem
What is environmental threat
400
Heat transfer where there is no direct contact with the heat source, but the heat can still be felt
What is radiation
500
Name five organisms found in the rocky shore
What is rockweed, kelp, diatoms, Irish moss, mussels barnacles, limpets, chitons, rock lice, sea stars, welks, mud crabs, rock crabs, lobsters, bacteria (biofilm), sand dollars
500
This is the name of the second stomach that doesn't leaves the body.
What is pyloric stomach
500
Name two stresses that organisms might encounter while living in the intertidal zones
What is removal of water, powerful crashing waves, air exposure, high salinity, radiation, the changing of the water levels throughout the day
500
The study of ecosystems
What is ecology
500
Drying due to the removal of water
What is desiccation
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