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Aquatic Science
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producer | Plants |
| Consumer | organism in nutriton cycle |
| Herbivore | eats plants |
| Carnivore | eats meat |
| Omnivore | eats meat and plants |
| Detrivore | eats decay |
| Decomposer | decays and breaks down matter |
| Scavenger | eats the dead |
| Photosynthesis | process where plants create their own food |
| Epiflora | sea plants that live on the bottom of the sea |
| Epifauna | sea organisms that live on the bottom of the sea |
| Infauna | animals living in the sediments on the ocean floor |
| Sessile | fixed in one place, immoble |
| Taxonomy | the classification of organisms |
| Holdfast | attaches the plant to rocky reefs on the oceans bottom |
| Phylogentic Classification | A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the inferred evolutionary relationships... |
| Scientific name | name issued to organisms by scientists upon discovery |
| Nekton | free swimming organisms |
| Benthos | flora and fauna found on ocean floor |
| Plankton | The small and microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water |
| Zooplankton | animal plankton |
| Phytoplankton | plant plankton |
| Diatoms | single celled algae |
| Dinoflagellates | single celled organisms with two flagella |
| Holoplankton | organisms that remain planktonic for entire life |
| Meroplankton | planktonic for only parrt of their life |
| Megaplankton | extra large zoo plankton |
| Pelagic Zone | Any water in the sea that is not close to the bottom or near to the shore |
| Euphotic Zone | depth of water exposed to light |
| Aphotic Zone | no light penetrates water |
| Filter Feeder | Organisms that gains nutrition by filtering the nutrients in surrounding water and ingesting them. |