Sea Star Adaptations
This is a trait that helps a sea star survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
This type of relationship is when one organism eats another organism.
What is a predator-prey relationship?
This happens when organisms need the same limited resource.
What is competition?
What type of feeder are blue mussels?
What are filter feeders?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
Sea stars use these tube feet to help them do this.
What is move and grip onto rocks?
In the rocky shore ecosystem, this animal is the predator that eats blue mussels.
What is a sea star?
Foxes and hawks compete for this animal as food.
What is a rabbit?
What do blue mussels use to attach to rocks?
What are byssal threads?
These animals eat other animals.
What are carnivores?
This adaptation helps sea stars hold onto rocks during strong ocean waves.
What are tube feet?
Blue mussels are considered this in their relationship with sea stars.
What is prey?
Different species of fish may compete for this in a coral reef ecosystem.
What is habitat space?
This rocky shore predator uses tube feet to grip rocks, open mussel shells, and survive strong ocean waves.
What is a sea star?
A sea star is this type of consumer because it eats mussels.
What is a carnivore?
Sea stars can regrow this body part if it is lost.
What is an arm?
whats a ecosystem
community of different species that interact with each other
what is a shore ?
a place where water and land meet
this organism is the parasite in the deer example.
What is a tick?
Plants make their own food through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
Sea stars survive in the rocky shore ecosystem because of these sticky suction-like structures.
What are tube feet?
what is population?
all members of a species in a particular area
what is a filter feeder
a organism that gather energy and nutrients from the water
Ticks feeding on deer is an example of this type of relationship.
What is a parasitic relationship?
Plants are called this because they make their own food.
What are producers?