Marine Ecology Review

Nonliving factors in an environment

• biotic

• abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Living factors in an environment

• biotic

• abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Symbiotic relationship in which 1 species benefits and the other is unaffected

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

Symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

Symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other is harmed

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

When species must battle it out for resources like food, shelter, mates, etc, this is called

• symbiosis

• competition

• predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is a limiting resource?

• things that are in short supply in the environment, which slows the growth of a population

• things that are plentiful in the environment, which speeds the growth of a population

• things that limit the space of the habitat the population can live in

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

____organisms live in the water column while ___ organisms live at the bottom of the ocean.

• pelagic, benthic

• benthic, pelagic

• plankton, pelagic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Total amount of renewable organic matter produced by organisms at each trophic level

• abiotic factors

• symbiotic relationships

• biomass

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next when consumers feed on the organisms in the level below them?

• 2%

• 10%

• 100%

• 50%

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3