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- Why are gills efficient?
- Because of their large surface area
- How do sponges release waste?
- Directly into sea water
- In the deepest level of the sea what is the primary group of living organisms in terms of consumption?
- Chemautotrophs
- What phylum are crustations from?
- Phylum Crustacea
- What class are "true jellies" from?
- Class Scyphozoa
- Lobsters, Shrimps, and Crabs are from the class__
- Malacostraca
- Snails and Nudibranches are from the class___
- Gastropoda
- Clams and scallops are from the class___
- Bivalvia
- Octopi and Nautili are from the class
- Cephlopoda
- Urchins and Sand Dollars all belong to the class___
- Echinodea
- Sea Stars, Sea Urchins, Brittle Stars, Sea Lillies and sea cucumbers are all from the phylum____
- Echinodermata
- Sea Stars come from the class
- Asteroidea
- Cartaliginous fish come from the Class
- Chondrichthyes
- How many species of Cartilaginous fish exist
- about 600
- Bony fish belong to the class___
- Osteicthyes
- How does a shark differ from a Tuna
- A shark has a cartilaginous skeleton whereas a tuna has a bony skeleton
- What are mollusk shells made of
- Calcium Carbonate
- What is the shallow top layer of the ocean called
- The photic zone
- Where can photosynthesis occur in the ocean?
- The photic zone
- What is the 2nd highest ocean layer
- the aphotic zone
- What lives in the aphotic zone and what do they consume?
- Heterotrophs that consume organisms produced in the photic zone
- What is the shore area between the high tide and the low tide called?
- The intertidal zone
- What are the main organisms that inhabit the intertidal zone?
- Barnacles mussels, sponges, clams, alge, and worms
- What is the shallow water over the continental shelf called
- The neritic zone
- What is the area past the continental shelf (opean ocean) called?
- the Oceanic zone
- What is open water not ascociated with the sea floor called?
- Pelagic Zone
- What is the sea floor called?
- The benthis zone
- What is the area of the benthic zone where light does not hit
- The abyssal zone
- What wavelengths or sound are most audible in water?
- Short wavelengths
- What frequencies to whales communicate at?
- 20 Hz
- How do altimeters work?
- Transmits signials to earth and receive echoes from the sea surface
- Where are coral reefs found?
- Warm, clear, shallow, tropical waters
- What is the order of Coral?
- Scleractinia
- What is the class of Coral?
- Anthozoa
- What is the phylum of Coral?
- Cnidaria
- How are reefs formed?
- By calcium carbonate produced by polyps
- What do polyps feed on?
- small particles floating in the water
- How do corals reproduce?
- Sexually and asexually
- Agulhas Current
- A warm ocean current flowing S along the SE coast of Africa
- Alaska Current
- an ocean current flowing counterclockwise in the Gulf of Alaska
- Aleutian Current
- A current in the Pacific Ocean that flows eastward between latitudes 40 degrees and 50 degrees N
- Subarctic Current
- A current in the Pacific Ocean that flows eastward between latitudes 40 degrees and 50 degrees N
- Antactic Circumpolar Current
- An ocean current flowing from west to east around antarctica
- West Wind Drift
- An ocean current flowing from west to east around antarctica
- Antilles Current
- A warm ocean current flowing NW along the N coast of the Greater Antilles and joining the Florida current off the SW coast of Florida
- Bank
- A broad elevation of the sea floor around which water is relativly shallow
- Bathometer
- a device for ascertaining the depth of water
- Bathyal
- of or pertaining to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones
- Aphotic zone
- the part of the ocean in which light is insufficient to carry on photosynthesis
- Bathymetry
- measurment of depth of large bodies of water
- measurment of the depth of large bodies of water
- Bathymetry
- Benthic
- of the seafloor, or pertaining to organisms living on or in the seafloor
- of the seafloor, or pertaining to organisms living on or in the seafloor
- Benthic
- Blade
- flat, photosynthetic "leafy" portion of an alga or seaweed
- What is compensation depth
- the depth at which there is a balance between the oxygen produced by algae through photosynthesis and consumed by respiration