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An organism that drifts with the currents, is microscopic, and can sometimes reach lengths of over 100 feet.

What is plankton?

100

 available food, competition, and predation

What are biotic factors ?

100

Things like space, food, light and mates

What are things that organisms compete for?

100
This is a measure of how many of an organisms offspring survive to produce their own offspring

What is a biological fitness? 

100
This organism contributes to over half of the earth's oxygen.
What is phytoplankton?
200

These are two types of producers in the ocean

What are phytoplankton and algae/seaweed?

200

Another name  factors that influence a food web such as the wind, waves, tides and sun.

What is abiotic?

200
The chain of events where a plant is eaten by an herbivore, the herbivore is eaten by the carnivore, and so on.
What is a food chain?
200
An animal that is hunted or caught for food.
What is prey?
200
This is the place where a plant or animal are naturally able to do their job.
What is a habitat?
300

This is how mussels and barnacles feed

What is filterfeeding?

300

This shows that this species has a relatively constant mortality rate over its lifespan 

Type II survivorship curve
300
A network that combines several food chains where one plant or animal can be eaten by a range of consumers.
What is a food web?
300

An organism that can not create its own food, but must obtain it from another source.

What is a consumer?

300

Since the ocean is a very stable thermal environment, this makes it possible for the majority of marine organisms to be

What are ectotherms? (cold-blooded)

400

Phytoplankton absorb sunlight and turn the sun's energy into organic material through this process.

What is photosynthesis?

400

This is why population growth curves flatten out

What are limiting factors? 

400
A community of organisms interacting with each other and the environment in which they live.
What is an ecosystem?
400
An organism that is able to synthesize its food by breaking down another organism.
What is a decomposer?
400

This is an abiotic factor that is a factor deep in the ocean, but not at the surface of the ocean.

What is pressure?

500

This is why fish and other marine organism's lose water to their environment. 

What is the ocean is a hypertonic environment?

(or there is more salt in the ocean water than in their body fluids) 

500

An organism that has a bigger effect on the composition of the ecosystem than its own population numbers would suggest. 

What is a keystone species? 

500

This place is occupied by a species in its ecosystem; it is where it lives, what is eats, its foraging route, and its season of activity.

What is a niche?

500

This is why the trophic levels in an ecosystem are shown in the shape of a pyramid.

What is the idea that 90% of the energy is lost with each move up the trophic pyramid?

500

When organisms in a population are evenly distributed throughout the ecosystem.

What is a uniform distribution?