Earth Processes
Fissures found at the ocean's floors
What are hydrothermal vents?
Organisms that produce their own food in a food web
What are producers?
Trees usually found growing in intertidal areas
What are Mangrove trees?
Chemical formula of water
What is H2O?
The number of different species present, and the range of habitats and ecosystems
What is Biodiversity?
A tectonic plate movement where they push away from each other
What are divergent boundaries?
Relationship where a symbiont and their host benefit from each other
What is mutualism?
Process of hard substrates being broken down by living organisms.
What is bioerosion?
What are pH test strips?
Formula used to calculate diversity
What is Simpson's Index of Diversity?
A large flat expanse of seafloor commonly caused by seafloor spreading
What are abyssal plains?
Relationship where a symbiont benefits from the host while harming them
What is parasitism?
An adaptation of the mangrove tree used for stability
What are prop roots?
Formula for density
What is (density)=(mass/volume)
Invertebrate animals with hard exoskeletons and jointed appendages
What are crustaceans?
The occurrence of moving objects being deflected by the earth's rotation
What is the Coriolis effect?
The rate of production of new biomass per unit area
What is productivity?
Type of mangrove found further up inland compared to most
What are white mangroves?
Area in water where salinity changes significantly with depth
What are Haloclines
Animals with radial symmetry
What are echinoderms?
circular systems of rotating ocean currents formed by wind patterns
What are Ocean Gyres?
A process used to get energy as an alternative to photosynthesis
What is chemosynthesis?
Reservoir that absorbs carbon from the atmosphere through various means
What are carbon sinks?
Area in water where temperature changes significantly with depth
What are pycnoclines?
Another name for animals of the Chondrichthyes class
What are cartilage fishes?