lab 19
Terms
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- living environmental factors
- biotic factors
- nonliving environmental components
- abiotic factors
- all of the plant and animal populations living and interacting in a given environment
- community
- organisms that consume detritus
- detritivores
- dead organic matter
- detritus
- shallow region along the shore where light penetrates to the bottom
- littoral zone
- the layer of open water to the depth that light penetrates
- limnetic zone
- phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish inhabit this area:
- limnetic zone
- light does not penetrate this zone
- the profundal
- the number of individual organisms present in the community to the number of species in that community
- species diversity
- the number of different species in a community
- species richness