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Underwater Ecology Rundown
An area in which organisms, landscapes, plants, animals, and even weather interact to create a specific bubble of ecology or life.
Ecosystem
Can you think of an ecosystem example?
Study of the relationships between organisms and their physical surroundings, as well as their patterns of distribution and abundance.
Ecology
As an ecologist, what might you study in an underwater ecosystem?
The physical, non-living components of an ecosystem.
Abiotic
What abiotic components might you find in an ocean ecosystem?
Biotic
The living components of an ecosystem.
What biotic components might you find in an ocean ecosystem?
The natural home of an organism that has all of the conditions necessary for survival.
Habitat
What might an aquatic organism need in its habitat to survive?
An area of the ocean seashore that is covered in water when the tide is high and exposed when the tide is low.
Intertidal
Zone
What creatures would you expect to find in an intertidal zone? Why might they be there?
A term used to relate to the water and organisms that live in the water.
Aquatic
Can you think of five aquatic species that live near Prince Rupert?
How an organism changed to better suit their environment and enhance their evolutionary fitness.
Adaptation
What adaptations might an
organism have to survive on the ocean floor?
The transfer of matter and energy between organisms in the form of food.
Food Chain
How might a food chain be an example of organism interdependency?
Organisms capable of making their own food, such as plants who
Producer
What might an aquatic organism need in its habitat to survive?
The natural home of an organism that has all of the conditions necessary for survival.
Consumer
What might an aquatic organism need in its habitat to survive?
The natural home of an organism that has all of the conditions necessary for survival.
Decomposer
What might an aquatic organism need in its habitat to survive?
The natural home of an organism that has all of the conditions necessary for survival.
Bottom
Feeders
What might an aquatic organism need in its habitat to survive?
The natural home of an organism that has all of the conditions necessary for survival.
Filter
Feeders
What might an aquatic organism need in its habitat to survive?
The natural home of an organism that has all of the conditions necessary for survival.
Bivalve
What might an aquatic organism need in its habitat to survive?
The natural home of an organism that has all of the conditions necessary for survival.
Shellfish
What might an aquatic organism need in its habitat to survive?
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