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Question 1

Estuary

Answer 1

The tidal mouth of a long river, where the tide meets the stream

Question 2

Benthos

Answer 2

The flora and fauna found on the bottom of in the bottom sediments, of a sea, lake or other body of water.

Question 3

Nekton

Answer 3

Aquatic animals that are able to swim and move independently of water currents.

Question 4

Plankton

Answer 4

The small and microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water.

Question 5

Upwelling

Answer 5

A rising of seawater, magma or other liquid.

Question 6

Herbivore

Answer 6

An animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for the main component of it’s diet

Question 7

Carnivore

Answer 7

An organism that derived it’s energy and nutrient regiments from a diet consisting mostly of animal tissue

Question 8

Omnivore

Answer 8

An animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin

Question 9

Biotic Factor

Answer 9

Any living component that affects another organism

Question 10

Abiotic Factor

Answer 10

A non living condition or thing that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organism in it.

Question 11

Autotroph (producer)

Answer 11

An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple substances present in its surroundings.

Question 12

Heterotroph (consumer)

Answer 12

An organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth.

Question 13

Decomposes

Answer 13

Organisms that break dead or decaying organisms, and carry out the natural process of decomposition.