| Definition | Term |
|---|
| Marine life zones/organisms above the bottom | |
| Numerical classification of streams whereby they occur in a stream drainage network; headwater streams are 1st order; joining 2 first order streams are 2nd order, joining 2 2nd ord | |
| applied to lakes and sometimes other ecosystems with high nutrient content and high biological production. | |
| Zone between the highest & lowest tides among marine shores | |
| a marine shore ecosystem dominated by herbaceous, vegetation, found mainly along sandy shores from temperate to high latitudes. | |
| sun-driven cycle of water through the biosphere through evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and run-off. | |
| a heterotrophic organism that eats insect | |
| movement of deeper ocean water to the surface; occurs most commonly along the west coasts of continents and around antarctica | |
| circle of low islands and coral reefs encircling a lagoon, generally formed on a submerged mountain ccalled a seamount | |
| middle value in a series of measurements or observations, chosen so that there are equal numbers of measurements in the series that are larger than the median and smaller than the | |
| a forest of subtropical and tropical marine shores dominated by salt-tolerant woody plants, such as rhizophora | |
| a model that predicts change in physical structure, dominant organisms, and ecosystem processes along the length of temperate rivers. | |
| A long, ridgelike reef that parallels the mainland and is separated from it by a deep lagoon | |
| large-scale, circular oceanic current that moves to the right in northern hem. and left in southern hem. | |
| generally refers to lakes of low nutrient content, abundant oxygen, and low primary production. | |
