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