Water
This process in the water cycle turns liquid water into gas.
What is evaporation?
DNA is found in this part of the cell
What is the nucleus?
This term describes all the different populations living together in one area
What is a community?
These tiny producers drift in water and include diatoms and cyanobacteria.
What are phytoplankton?
This is the name for water with both salt and fresh water mixing, like where a river meets the sea.
What is an estuary?
In the binomial naming system, the name Orcinus orca includes these two parts.
What is the genus and species?
This zone of the open ocean has light, high oxygen, and lots of life.
What is the sunlight zone?
Deep-sea creatures often use this adaptation to glow in the dark.
What is bioluminescence?
This property of water increases when more salt is added.
What is salinity?
The difference between bird and reptile eggs are....
Name one reason why coastal ecosystems are more productive than open-ocean ecosystems.
What is nutrient run-off / shallow depth / more sunlight?
This is one reason animals in the midnight zone move slowly and live long lives.
What is low oxygen?
As you go deeper in the ocean, this increases and can crush objects.
What is pressure?
This line along the side of a fish helps it detect vibrations in the water.
What is the lateral line?
The rocky shore is divided into these three main zones.
What are the supratidal, intertidal, and subtidal zones?
This soft-bodied sea creature hides in rock pools and can pull in its tentacles.
What is a sea anemone?
This ocean process brings cold, nutrient-rich water to the surface and helps marine life grow.
What is upwelling?
These three domains are used to classify all living things.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya?
This adaptation helps mangrove trees survive in salty, waterlogged soil.
What are aerial roots (pneumatophores), prop roots, or salt-excreting leaves?
Name the difference between an environment, ecosystem and habitat.
An environment as the external surroundings of an organism or population, including biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) component. An ecosystem as a unit containing the community of organisms and their environment, interacting together. A habitat as the area where an organism lives and interacts with its environment and other organisms