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| 4997762939 | aquatic life zones | aquatic equivalents of biomes | 0 | |
| 4997765272 | saltwater/ marine aquatic systems | oceans, coastal wetlands, coral reefs | 1 | |
| 4997766479 | freshwater aquatic systems | lakes, rivers, streams, and inland wetlands | 2 | |
| 4997769256 | phytoplankton | drifting plants, including many types of algae | 3 | |
| 4997770090 | zooplankton | drifting animals, consist of many herbivores that feed on phytoplankton | 4 | |
| 4997773526 | ultraplankton | smaller plankton, responsible for 70% of the primary productivity near the ocean surface | 5 | |
| 4997776946 | nekton | strongly swimming consumers such as fish and whiles | 6 | |
| 4997777832 | benthos | bottom dwellers such as oysters and crabs | 7 | |
| 4997779224 | decomposers | mostly bacteria, breaking down organic compounds in the dead bodies of aquatic organisms | 8 | |
| 4997783859 | turbidity | cloudiness caused by excessive algal growth resulting from nutrient overloads | 9 | |
| 4997786222 | coastal zones | warm, nutrient rich, shallow water that extends from the high tide mark on land to the shallow edge of continental shelf | 10 | |
| 4997791974 | estuaries | where rivers meet the sea | 11 | |
| 4997792734 | coastal wetlands | coastal land areas covered with water all or part of they year | 12 | |
| 4997796458 | intertidal zone | area of shoreline between low and high tides | 13 | |
| 4997799110 | euphotic zone | brightly lit upper zone where drifting phytoplankton carry about 40 percent of the worlds photosynthetic activity | 14 |
