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aquatic science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A person or thing that makes their own food | producer |
| A person or thing that eats or uses something. | consumer |
| only eats palnts | herbivore |
| An animal that feeds on flesh | carnivore |
| eats plants and flesh | omnivore |
| an animal that feeds on the flesh of decay animals for nutrients. | detritivore |
| fungus that decomposes organic material. | decomposer |
| 1.An animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse. | scavenger |
| The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. | photosynthesis |
| flower | epiflora |
| Animals living on the surface of the seabed or a riverbed, or attached to submerged objects or aquatic animals or plants. | epifauna |
| The animals living in the sediments of the ocean floor or river or lake beds | infauna |
| Fixed in one place; immobile. | sessile |
| The branch of science concerned with classification, esp. of organisms; systematics. | taxonomy |
| attaches the plant to rocky reef on the oceans bottom. | holdfast |
| A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the inferred evolutionary relationships | phylogenetic classification |
| The formal system of naming species is called binomial nomenclature | scientific name |
| Aquatic animals that are able to swim and move independently of water currents. | nekton |
| The flora and fauna found on the bottom, or in the bottom sediments, of a sea, lake, or other body of water. | benthos |
| The small and microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water, consisting chiefly of diatoms, protozoans, small | plankton |
| Plankton consisting of small animals and the immature stages of larger animals | zooplankton |
| Plankton consisting of microscopic plants. | phytoplankton |
| A single-celled alga (class Bacillariophyceae) that has a cell wall of silica. Many kinds are planktonic. | diatoms |
| A single-celled organism (division Dinophyta, or class Dinophyceae, division Chromophycota) with two flagella, occurring in large | dinoflagellates |
| Holoplankton are organisms that are planktonic for their entire life cycle. Examples of holoplankton include diatoms, radiolarians,... | holoplankton |
| Meroplankton are organisms that are planktonic for only a part of their life cycles, usually the larval stage. | meroplankton |
| Meroplankton are organisms that are planktonic for only a part of their life cycles, usually the larval stage. | megaplankton |
| Any water in the sea that is not close to the bottom or near to the shore is in the pelagic zone. The word pelagic comes from the Greek... | pelagic zone |
| The photic zone or euphotic zone (Greek 'well lit') is the depth of the water in a lake or ocean that is exposed to sufficient | euphotic zone |
| The aphotic zone (aphotic from Greek prefix + "without light") is the portion of a lake or ocean where there is little or no | aphotic zone |
| are animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water | filter feeder |
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