EBIO 210 Post-Exam 3
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- Sciaenidae
- drums and croakers; euryhaline, globally important
- vertical zonation
- nearly universal characteristic of rocky intertidal zones, present but less obvious in soft-substrate environments; appearance of distinct bands of species
- estuary
- aquatic habitat where freshwater from lotic environments mixes with saltwater from marine environments
- Red Sea
- longest fringing reef is in...
- Serranidae
- sea basses and groupers; globally, commercial important
- Carangidae
- fish family: jacks
- Ulva lactuca
- sea lettuce
- pneumatophores
- aerial roots of mangroves
- ostracods
- seed shrimp; important crustaceous zooplankton
- demersal
- ground/bottom fishes
- Porolithon and Lithothamnion
- two red algae genera that may form an algal ridge on Pacific reefs
- Millepora
- order of reef-building hydrozoans
- erosional headland
- headland formed by deposition of sediment by a river into an ocean
- Angulliformes
- fish family: eels
- lentic
- describes nonflowing freshwater environments (lakes)
- fringing reefs
- reefs formed in near-shore areas with hard substrate
- esca
- "bait" on angling apparatus
- 30 degrees north to 30 degrees south
- latitudinal range of most coral reefs
- glacial
- type of estuary formed when glaciers carve deep valleys along a coast
- epifauna
- organisms that live on top of the substrate
- Moronidae
- striped bass; game and commercial fish, euryhaline
- infauna
- organisms that burrow into the substrate
- Halimeda
- genus of calcareous green algae
- Prochlorococcus
- one of two genera that may account for 80-90% of primary production in some pelagic communities; cooler
- Macrocystis and Nereocystis
- two dominant genera in kelp forests
- lotic
- describes flowing freshwater environments (rivers)
- mangal
- alternate name for a mangrove forest
- Euphasia
- krill genus; important crustaceous zooplankton
- diamond back terrapin
- turtle common in marshes
- Clupeidae
- fish family: herrings
- Scorpaeiformes
- fish family: scorpion fish, mail-checked fish
- long shore currents
- ocean currents that move parallel to shore
- euphasiids
- krill; important crustaceous zooplankton
- mysids
- opossum shrimp; important crustaceous zooplankton
- Paralichthys
- flounder genus (Pleuronectiformes)
- Pacific
- coast with narrow estuaries; geologically active
- Gadidae
- genus including cod, haddock, pollack
- byssal threads
- structure mussels use to attach to substrate
- Scirpus
- bulrushes
- Dolphin Safe Act
- 1990 legislation to protect dolphins being killed by tuna fishing
- apneustic breathing
- rapid exhalation followed by period of no breathing; characteristic of cetaceans
- leeward
- this side of an atoll has an algal ridge
- Kwajalein
- largest atoll; Marshall Islands
- point bar
- formed by deposition of sediment on building bank
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- agency of the Department of Commerce that studies the oceans
- marsh
- wetland where grasses are dominant
- Fundulus
- killifish genus (Fundulidae)
- Spartina patens
- wiregrass or marshhay; brackish marshes
- Salmoniformes
- fish family: salmon
- Ceratioidia
- taxon of bathypelagic anglerfishes
- Lafouche
- example of an erosional headland
- oxboat lake
- cresent-shaped lake formed by a river abandoning a meander
- Atlantic
- coast with broad estuaries; geologically inactive
- wetlands
- waterlogged or often-submerged terrestrial environments often associated with estuaries
- Pleuronectoformes
- fish family: flatfishes
- San Francisco Bay
- example of an area with tectonic estuaries
- 25 m
- most coral reefs are found at less than this depth
- Spartina alterniflora
- oyster grass or smooth cordgrass; salt marshes
- Myctophiformes
- fish order: lanternfishes
- calanoid copepods
- smallest copepods; important crustaceous zooplankton
- Carolinas
- example of an area with bar-built estuaries
- National Marine Fisheries Service
- division of NOAA that managed marine resources
- soft substrate
- much of the US east coast and the entire Gulf coast have...
- speckled kingsnake
- snake common in marshes
- Scleractinia
- order of hermatypic anthazoan corals
- cypress-tupelo swamp
- common local type of swamp
- Great Barrier Reef in Australia
- largest barrier reef
- Suvadiva
- largest atoll; Maldive Islands
- deep scattering layer
- vertical migrators to surface daily
- Engraulidae
- fish family: anchovies; most important locally as food for other species
- epiphytes
- sessile organisms that use plants as substrate
- Perciformes
- fish family including over 1000 species (bass, snappers, etc.)
- atoll
- formed from fringing reef by subsidence of volcanic island
- cut bank
- side of a meander that is being eroded
- Distichlis
- saltgrass; salt and brackish marshes
- Littorina
- periwinkle mollusk
- Gonostomatidae
- fish family: bristlemouths
- Cynoscion
- weakfish genus (Sciaenidae)
- Gadiformes
- fish family: cods
- Sinechococcus
- one of two genera that may account for 80-90% of primary production in some pelagic communities; warmer
- windward
- this side of an atoll has mostly encrusting coralline algae
- flukes
- most left-eyed flatfish
- hard substrate
- Canadian coasts, US west coast, British Isles, and Australia have...
- illicium
- angling apparatus
- Lutjanidae
- snappers; locally important, especially red snappers
- Cyprinodontidae
- fish family: topminnows, killifish; euryhaline and eurythermal
- tectonic
- type of estuary formed when land sinks
- St. Lawrence Bay
- example of an area with drowned river valley estuaries
- Grand Banks and Georges Bank
- two areas with historically important cod fisheries
- 28-38 ppt
- salinity range of most coral reefs
- swamp
- wetland where trees are the dominant plantlife
- hyperiid amphipods
- many pseudopelagic amphipods; important crustaceous zooplankton
- bar-built estuary
- type of estuary formed when current build sand bars or barrier islands
- Coryphaenidae
- fish family: mahi mahi
- building bank
- side of a meander that is being built up
- bycatch
- species accidentally caught while fishing for others; 30% of catch
- Ecklonia, Laminaria, and Pterogophora
- three genera dominant in kelp beds
- aphakic space
- deep-sea eye adaptation; space around lens
- Enteromorpha
- green algae commonly found attached to bivalve mollusks in soft substrate communities
- Junces
- soft and black rushes
- finer sediment
- lower kinetic energy (wave action) leads to...
- 23 degrees
- latitude (north and south) of Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer
- cladocerans
- water fleas; important crustaceous zooplankton
- drowned river valley
- type of estuary formed when sea levels rose 18000 years ago
- Stomiiformes
- fish order: bristlemouths
- Spartina
- cordgrass; common grass in local marshes
- mangrove swamp
- type of swamp common in southeast Asia
- Sciaenops
- red drum genus (Sciaenidae)
- flounders
- mostly right-eyed flatfishes
- Alaska
- example of an area with glacial estuaries
- Salicornia
- glasswort; shrublike marsh plant
- meander
- curve of a river near sea level
- barrier reefs
- formed from fringing reefs; similar, with lagoon on inner side