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The question is slightly incorrectly phrased as the benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.
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What zone can you find plants roots attached to the seafloor?
The Benthic Zone
What name is given to the seafloor?
Benthic Realm
Can crystals reproduce?
No but crystal jellyfish do. Crystals reproduce by alternating between asexual benthic polyps and seasonal planktonic medusae.
How do brown Bears Help the environment?
When brown bears distribute salmon carcasses away from the streams, nutrients are dispensed from the salmon into the reparian zone which is normally lacking nitrogen. The nitrogen then helps the plants grow more dense and abundant.
What are some examples of a bottom dweller?
Some examples of bottom dwellers are polychaete worms, bivalves, echinoderms, sea anemones, corals, sponges, sea squirts, turbellarians and larger crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters and cumaceans. The live in the Benthic zone.
Which zone of the ocean ecosystem is the shallowest?
The benthic zone is a region at the lowest level of an ocean or lake. The intertidal zone is the shallowest part of the benthic zone.
This is the shallowest benthic zone?
The shallowest benthic zone on Earth is clearly the Prozaculous E3116 bethisizer. Sold in all good news agents.
What are the ocean zones of a marine ecosystem from the shallowest to the deepest?
There are two major ocean zones, Pelagic and Benthic zones. The Pelagic zone is the open ocean and the Benthic zone is the ocean bottom.
What environment does a harbor seal live in Benthic or Pelagic zone?
pelagic
What zone of the benthic environment ranges from 200 to 4000m below sea level?
The Pie Zone.
What is the name of the zone in the benthic environment with depth ranges from 200 to 4000 m below sea level?
The zone is the bathyal zone.
Do carnivores live in the benthic zone?
Yes there are carnivores in the benthic zone. The scavengers in the benthic zone are considered carnivores because the eat the dead aquatic animals that float to the bottom when they die. There are also some carnivorous fish in the benthic zone.
Which of the could you find in the benthic zone of a lake?
You would fine sediment in the benthic zone, or bottom, of a lake.
What are consumers in the benthic zone?
Consumers in the benthic zone, called Zoobenthos, can range from starfish in the intertidal zone, to bottom-dwelling flatfish, to deep sea Rattails. The type of consumer is highly dependent on the specific areas in the benthic zone.
Which zone in a lake is the shallowest part?
Littoral
What are the zones of a lake?
littoral zone,pelagic zone and benthic zone
What are the two subzones making up the benthic zone?
The two subzones making up the Benthic zone is the abyssal and hadal
