| A | B |
|---|
| Autotropic | Plants or bacteria that produce food from inorganic material. uce food from inorganic (non-living) material |
| Benthos | Plants or animals that are on the bottom of the ocean. |
| Inorganic material | Non living things such as air, rocks etc. |
| Chemosynthesis | A process in which bacteria uses substances such as methane gas to produce food through chemical reactions. |
| Consumers | Organisms that feed on producers |
| Decomposers | Organisms that break down organic tissue into nutrients. |
| Organic | An organisms that has carbon in it, that once was living. |
| Heterotropic | Organisms that are unable to make their own food to obtain energy. |
| Nekton | A group of marine animals that are able to control their location in the water by swimming. |
| Plankton | Tiny plant like organisms called phytoplankton, and animal like organisms called zooplankton that float at or near the surface of the ocean. |
| Producers | Organims that make their own food ..plants |
| Dinoflagellate | A form of plankton that produce the red tide when reproducing. |
| Red tide | Due to the lack of Oxygen when the dinoflagellates reproduce, organims die. |
| Sun | Our planet primary source of energy. |
| Consumers | Heterotropic |
| Producers | Autrophic |
| Ecosystem | All living organism and their physical component. |
| Biotic | Living organisms |
| Abiotic | Non living things |
