Vocabulary
Freshwater
Salt water
Critical Thinking
Review
100
estuary
What is the boundary where fresh water feeds into salt water?
100
standing water, running water, and wetlands
What are three forms of freshwater ecosystems?
100
intertidal, neritic, bathyal, abyssal
What are the zones of an ocean ecosystem?
100
amounts of sunlight, dissolved salt, and oxygen
What are the factor that determine where organisms can live in a water ecosystem?
100
oceans
What is the water ecosystem that contains most of the world's water?
200
Intertidal Zone
What is the shallowest part of the ocean ecosystem?
200
marshes, swamps, bogs
What are examples of wetlands?
200
Intertidal
What is the shallowest part of the ocean ecosystem?
200
97%
What is the amount of salt water on Earth?
200
The only body of water that is uniquely part salt water and art fresh water.
What is the reason an estuary is unique?
300
plankton
What are the creatures that drift freely in the water?
300
The type of water ecosystem that tends to have more oxygen.
What is running-water ecosystems?
300
Neritic Zone
What is the zone of the ocean that contains the majority of ocean life?
300
little sunlight is able to penetrate to the bottom of a body of water.
What is the reason producers grow in shallow water near the shore?
300
whales, turtles, sharks
What are examples of nekton?
400
nekton
What are the larger active swimmers in a body of water called?
400
open water, shallow water, and bottom
What are the zones of standing-water ecosystems?
400
bathyal zone
What is home to many large consumers but few producers?
400
Few producers are able to survive in fast moving water.
What is the reason running-water is dependent on the land?
400
estuary
What is a body of water that helps clean the environment naturally?
500
benthos
What are the organisms that live on the bottom of a body of water?
500
beavers, muskrats, otters, birds, and fish
What are animals that live in wetlands?
500
hydrothermal vents
What is the support of many organisms on the ocean floor?
500
Organisms living in this zone are adapted to spend some time completely under water and some time "high and dry" with no water.
What are the animals adapted to life in the intertidal zone?
500
Moon's gravitational pull causes the rise and fall in this zone.
What is the intertidal zone?
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