Coral Reefs abiotic factors

Question 1

Define consumer

Answer 1

It gets energy by eating other animals

Question 2

Define coral

Answer 2

Are animals that live in the water

Question 3

Coral bleaching

Answer 3

When waters start to get warm and coral eject their zooxanthellae and turn white

Question 4

Filter feeders

Answer 4

An animals that eats small pieces of food or partials from the waters

Question 5

Food chain

Answer 5

Which organisms obtain their energy from other organisms

Question 6

Food web

Answer 6

A diagram that shows were the animals gets their energy from

Question 7

Grazer

Question 8

Ocean acidification

Answer 8

When the waters absorb carbon dioxide

Question 9

Ph

Answer 9

A solution to measure how acidic or basic it is

Question 10

Plankton

Answer 10

Little small animals that sponges eat

Question 11

Predator

Answer 11

A animals that lives by killing other animals

Question 12

Producer

Answer 12

A animal the gets energy from the sun

Question 13

Sediment

Answer 13

Small dirt particles

Question 14

Zooxanthellae

Answer 14

Lives in the corals tissue

Question 15

Example of a food chain

Answer 15

Sponges, angelfish, snapper, parrot fish

Question 16

What’s going to increase and decrease if you take away the long spines sea urchin

Answer 16

Decrease fish, increase algae

Question 17

Define biotic factors

Answer 17

Living parts of the ecosystem

Question 18

Coral reefs

Answer 18

A diverse habitat