Marine Organisms and Life in the Ocean
This type of organism creates their own food, often through photosynthesis
What is an Autotroph?
The Process of converting energy to organic compounds
What is Primary Productivity
An intricate nature of multiple interacting food chains
what is a food web
These creatures and their excrement have positive affects on coral reefs
What is a sea cucumber
Jellyfish is this type of plankton
What is a zooplankton
These type of organisms live on the sea floor
What is Benthic?
This zone in the ocean represents the depth to which photosynthesis can still be performed
benthic and pelagic organisms rely on this for food below the photic zone
What is detritus
This process releases trapped nitrogen from sediment, and contributes to the nitrogen cycle
What is the process of Sea Cucumbers eating and excreting sediment
Diatoms are classified in this category for their eating habits
What are Autotrophs
This type of plankton is the larval stage of marine animals
this is associated with a higher biomass in an environment
what is the abundance of primary producers (autotrophs)
Intertidal Zone
This harmful microscopic debris is ingested by marine animals, and makes it's way back into our food
What are Microplastics
In a food web, these two are considered primary producers
What is phytoplankton and ultraplankton?
These two aspects allow a freshwater fish to not drink, but urinate a third of their body weight
What is Osmotic Pressure and Hypertonic Cells?
This causes increased productivity during the spring and the fall in the mid latitude regions of earth
Epifauna
what are animals that live attached to rocks and seaweed, often found in rocky shores?
This part of the ocean is 60% of the Earth's surface and the largest part of the biosphere
What is the deep-sea floor?
NOAA
What is the national oceanic and atmospheric administration
This characteristic makes it hard to float in warm water
What is low water density?
Anoxia
what is the act of respiration outpacing photosynthesis below the oxygen compensation depth?
Atoll
What is a coral reef enclosing a shallow lagoon
In an experiment summarized by Adriane Lam, Copepod's ingestion of microplastics caused this change among their eating habits
What is changing their preference of algae that they ingest and ingesting more microplastic
An organism that's usually been overlooked, but now has been dominating in deep-sea food web models
What is a protist?