Zones
This zone is closest to the sun.
Sunlight Zone
This ecosystem is found in tropical, shallow waters and contains organisms that look like colorful rock.
Coral reef
An organism that can produce its own food.
Producer
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms are called what?
Consumers
This organism eats the algae in the trophic pyramid.
krill
The temperate starts to get cold, and there is less light.
The twilight zone
An ecosystem with green, leafy trunks that sway back and forth like ribbons.
Kelp forest
An interconnected system of food sources between producer, consumer and decomposer organisms.
Food web
What is the name of the pyramid that shows how animals get their energy?
Trophic pyramid
These tiny producers nourish themselves from the sun.
Plankton
This zone is where you would find a bioluminescent anglerfish.
The Midnight Zone
The most remote of all of the ocean ecosystems.
Deep Sea
Traits or properties that describe something.
Characteristic
Two animals that cooperate in order to live.
Symbiotic
This organism can grow over 20 feet long!
Great white shark
This zone is as far below the surface as the Denali mountain is above it.
The Abyssal Zone
This ecosystem consists of tangled roots that help prevent erosion.
Mangrove trees
Characteristics connected to living things.
Biotic factors
The way organisms get their nutrients in the deep ocean.
Hydrothermal vents
The great white shark is what kind of predator?
apex
This zone is the deepest part of the ocean and contains the Mariana trench.
The Hadal Zone
This ecosystem is where salt water and fresh water meet.
Estuary
The ability for organisms to generate their own light.
bioluminescence
When the temperature changes according to the season and wind.
Fluctuates
The hard, outer shell of krill.
exoskeleton