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aquatic_eco_vocab
vocabulary words for aquatic ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| biotic factor | biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem |
| abiotic factor | physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem |
| habitat | area where an organism lives, including biotic and abiotic factors |
| niche | full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which an organism uses its conditions |
| resource | any necessity of life |
| plankton | tiny free floating organisms in the water |
| phytoplankton | algae and other small photosynthetic organisms found near the surface of the ocean and forming part of plankton |
| zooplankton | tiny animals that form part of plankton |
| wetland | ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface of the soil for at lease part of the year |
| estuary | wetland at which rivers meet the ocean |
| detritus | particles in organic material that provides food for organisms at the base of the estuary's food web |
| salt marsh | temperate zone estuary dominated by salt-tolerant grasses of the low tide line and by sea grasses underwater |
| photic zone | well-lit upper layer of the oceans |
| aphotic zone | zone with no light below the photic zone |
| kelp forest | coastal ocean community named for its most abundent organism, kelp |
| coral reef | diverse and productive environment named for coral animals that make its primary structure |
| benthos | organisms that live attached to or near the ocean |
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