Ocean ecosystems

What is an ecosystem?

• A group of animals that are the same species.

• Soil, water, air and sunlight

• All the living and non living things that interact in an area.

• North America

What are tiny organisms that float near the surface of the water?

• plankton

• organisms

• abiotic factor

• Krill

Example of a secondary consumer

• Plankton

• Krill

• seaweed

• Fish

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another is termed..

• energy pyramid
• adaptation
• autotroph
• food web

A simple "line" of plants and animals that transfer energy by the process of eating.

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

• Decomposers

Interconnected feeding relationships within an ecosystem that transfer energy from producers to consumers.

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Decomposer

• Ecosystem

An organism in a food chain that is able to make its own food and represents level 1 on the food chain .

• Consumer

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

An organism in a food web that feeds directly on the producer.

• Primary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer
• Decomposer
• Carnivore

An organism in a food web that eats other consumers to obtain energy.

• Producer

• Secondary

  Consumer

• Prey

• Scavenger