Marinebio Exam Review
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- the ocean with the largest surface area
- pacific
- a technological development that was a direct development of World War II
- sonar
- in the sci method, questions are stated as a
- question
- pangea started to break up about
- 200 million years ago
- an example of a shear boundary is
- san andreas fault
- island arcs are usually associated with
- volcanoes
- hydrogen bonds in water molecules are formed between
- hydrogen and oxygen atoms of adjacent molecules
- a temp of 4 C indicates
- when freshwater is most dense
- the salinity of water is measured in
- PPM
- Thallus is
- body form
- coralline green and red algae recieve this name due to their ability to
- harden, they have CaCO3 in their cell walls
- two types of pulls on the tides are
- sun and moon
- what are carotene, xanthophylls, and fucoxanthins?
- pigments
- currents foremd from temp and salt concentration fluctuation are called
- thermohaline currents
- prokaryotes included in the kingdom
- monera
- stromatolites are
- massive calcium mounds formed by blue green algae
- diatoms are mostly
- producers, plankton, have oil, microscopic, frustule, protista
- the first marinebio lab in the US
- Woodshole
- algae are classified according to their
- color
- when super heated water seeps into the fissures the result could be
- hydrothermal vents
- the reason for change in sea level is related to the
- ice age
- process bywhich water molecules fo from liquid to solid
- evaporation
- hydrogen bonds:
- raise the heat capacity of water
- the strongest pull of tides comes from the
- moon
- all effect tides except
- wind direction
- floridas west coast experiences
- diurnal tides
- which is not true of the decay of bacteria?
- carry out photosunthesis
- protists that have a shell made of SiO (silicon) are called
- diatoms
- Theory
- hypothesis tested and passes many test, widely accepted
- first founder of marinebio
- aristotle
- first explorer to have a naturalist on board
- james cook
- solid layer of the earth found below the crust
- mantle
- lithogenic sediments come from
- weathering of rocks
- materials with the newly forming earth settled into layers according to
- density
- rule of constant proportions
- amts of various ions in salt water
- which type of light penetrates the least in water?
- red
- Secchi disk measures
- water clarity
- suns unequal heating of land and water causes
- wind
- currents in the northern hemis spin
- right
- currents in south hemis move
- left
- waters of the gulf stream are
- warm
- red tides are caused mostly by
- dinoflagellates
- radiolarians are characterized by
- test made of silicon, look like stars
- plankton that can be collected in a standard plankton net
- microplankton
- largest sized algae
- brown
- marine flowering plants
- angiosperms
- body of water that is connected by land and one ocean is
- a sea
- period of time when no learning took place
- dark ages
- thinnest layer of the earth
- crust
- how the earth originated
- the big bang
- salinity of seawater increases as
- evaporation increase
- pressure increases 1 atm every
- 33 ft
- waves breaking at an angle help to form
- sand bars
- deep sea spiral currents called
- eckman circulation
- dinoflagellates that live in association reef building corals and other animals are known
- zooxanthellae
- which is not a protist?
- bacteria (monera)
- which mangrove leaf is green on one side but white or silver on the other?
- white mangrove (Laguncularia)
- ALVIN
- deep sea sub operated by woodshole
- reason to study marinebio?
- food and survive
- magnetic anomalities helped to show that
- sea floor was spreading
- super ocean!
- panthalassa
- substance of opposite charged ions
- molecule ------ SALTS!
- when a diver descneds, cavity air
- collapses
- waves that are produced by earthquakes are called
- tsunamis
- wind that blows from land to sea can cause
- upwelling
- the beach that has high wave crests and shorter wavelength is considered to be
- high energy
- bacteria reproduce by
- binary fission
- some bacteria can use phosphorus to make fod
- luminescent
- all belong to protista except
- lichens
- algae are economically important becuase they
- are used as animal feed, food, and thickener
- mangrove with prop roots
- rhizophora -- red mangrove
- holdfasts are absent in
- sargassum
- seagrasses
- contain holdfasts
- SCUBA was designed by Gagnan with hlep from
- Jacques Costeau
- some deep sea sponges produce discodermalide that helps cure
- cancer
- when scientists set up conditions in which hypothesis can be tested
- experiment
- carrageenan is
- a thickener, IRISH MOSS
- Suggested theory of plate tectonics
- wagener
- zones where sea floor is destroyed is called
- subduction zones
- feature of a passive margin would be
- a wide continental shelf
- density formula
- d= M/V
- organisms that live in or on the surface tension are called
- neustons
- all can affect the organism except
- the water
- beach zone is considered to be
- high energy zone
- name given to the shell of the diatom
- frustule
- some dinoflagellates produce
- toxins
- ALL PLANTS are falt tolerant must have a way to
- filter out salt
- air bladders
- help keep algae stay near surface for light
- lowest part of a wave
- trough
- oceanic crust is largely made up of
- basalt
- ealy evidence of contintenal drift was suggested by
- Bacon/Wegener
- more recnet evidence for continental drift came from discrover of
- mid oceanic ridges
- FORIMINIFERA are
- consumers, zooplankton
- migratin of zooplankton that is determined by light of day is
- diuranl
- imature stage
- larvae
- arrow worm is
- holoplankton
- physalia is!
- man-o-war
- cannot make its own food
- hetertroph
- phylum Porifera means
- sponges
- the ability to grow new parts is called
- regeneration
- spicules are
- skeletal structures of sponges
- an animal that contains stinging capsules are
- cnidarian
- special cells that cary nutrients through the speong
- collar cells
- sponges are classified according to make up of
- spicules
- sessile anmials
- do not move
- all snidarians share all of features excpet
- digestive sustem
- soft corals belong to
- gorgonians