Water
A river is what type of ecosystem?
Freshwater
The study of where organisms live is called:
Biogeography
What is a consumer that eats only animals?
Carnivore
The process by which liquid water changes to gas is called:
Evaporation
Organisms that use the suns energy to turn water and carbon dioxide into food are called:
Producers
Name an animal you could find in the Neritic zone
crabs, starfish, sea urchins, and mollusks, and larger animals such as fish (cod, tuna, salmon), sea turtles
The type of biome that exists in an area is mostly determined by:
Climate
In a tropical rainforest, tall trees form a leafy roof called a(n)
Canopy
The carbon cycle is closely linked to what other cycle?
Oxygen cycle
The process by which a gas changes to a liquid is called:
Condensation
Name the 4 zones we covered in the aquatic ecosystems section
Estuary, Intertidal zone, Neritic zone, Open ocean
What biome receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year?
Desert biome
Ecologists study the feeding patterns to learn how energy flows within a(n)
Ecosystem
What are the three ways of dispersal?
Wind, water, living things
What is precipitation?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is the definition of an esturary
Where freshwater meets saltwater
Which type of rainforest is found in the middle latitudes?
Temperate
Consumers get energy by eating what?
Other living organisms
What is continental drift?
The continents slowly moving away from each other as tectonic plates move and shift
What is a food web?
Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
The marine ecosystem in the shallow ocean near the coast is called what?
Neritic zone
What are species that are carried into a new location called?
Exotic species
What is the one ecosystem that is not considered a major biome?
Mountain and Ice
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in an ecosystem is called a(n)
Energy Pyramid
What is nitrogen fixation?
The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen