Marine Biology Quiz
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- Biotic
- features of the environment arising from the activites of living organism (the opposite is abiotic which is climate and soil factors)
- Photosynthesis
- the light dependant synthesis of carbon from inorganic molecules
- Mutualism
- a relationship between 2 organisms where both organisms benefit
- Zooplankton
- animal members of the plankton community
- Parasitism
- the relationship between 2 organisms where one benefits and the other is harmed
- Food Web
- all the interacting food chains within a community
- Pelagic
- free floating or swimming organisms in a body of water
- Necton
- swimming organisms of the pelagic zone
- Food chain
- a chain of organisms in a community through which energy is transfered
- Benthic
- living on the sea bottom
- Biome
- a region of earth a characteristic climate and organisms
- Consumers
- an organism that eats plants or animals
- Host
- an organism supporting a parasite
- Intertidal
- a shore line zone which is alternately covered by water
- Producers
- plants which produce food by photosynthesis
- Phytoplankton
- members of the plankton which can produce thier own food by photosynthesis
- Commensalism
- a relationship between 2 unrelated species in which 1 species benifits and the other is neirther harmed nor benefits
- Climax Vegetation
- a community with stable vegetation existing in equilibrium with the environment
- Plankton
- organisms free floating in the pelagic zone
- Natural Community
- the assemblage of populations within a certain area
- Antibiosis
- The relationship where one species prevents another from growing
- Phylogenetic
- a biological classification of organisms according to the evolutionary history
- Biodiversity
- the level of variation of organisms within a predetermined region
- Biological succession
- the process by which an area that has been disturbed returns to its climax organisms