APEs Flashcards

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