Aquatic Ecosystems
What are aquatic life zones?
Coastal land areas covered with water all or part of the year(ex: coastal mashes, salt marshes, and mangrove forests).
What are coastal wetlands?
The largest estuary in the US.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
The middle zone, dimly lit, with many smaller fish and zooplankton that usually migrate to feed on the surface at night.
The reason the background extinction rate has risen(this isn't hard at all, it's practically free points and only half a brain cell used).
Humans(of course).
The two major threats to marine ecosystems.
What are climate change and ocean acidification?
The rising levels of acidity in ocean waters, the newest GROWING THREAT to coral reefs.
What is ocean acidification?
The two types of freshwater aquatic life zones.
What are standing(lentic) and flowing(lotic) bodies of water?
The THREE zones of freshwater streams/lakes(there are more zones SPECIFICALLY for lakes, but these three are NOT it).
What are the source zone, transition zone, and floodplain zones?
When a large, intact area of habitat such as a forest of natural grassland is divided into smaller, isolated patches/habitat islands, usually dividing up species, leaving individuals or smaller groups more vulnerable.
What is habitat fragmentation?
They are a type of aquatic species, tend to be strong swimmers, and consumers. (ex: fish, turtles, and whales)
What are nekton?
This type of shore has a lot of biodiversity, and has many pools and rocks(they tend to be steep).
What are rocky shores?
Land area that delivers runoff, sediment, and dissolved substances to a stream, lake or wetlands.
What is a watershed/drainage basin?
The FOUR major lake zones(it's not my fault there are so many).
What are the littoral zone, the limnetic zone, the profundal zone, and the benthic zones?
These three things stand for LPI.
Living(L) Planet(P) Index(I).
The three types of plankton mentioned in the book.
What are phytoplankton, ultraplankton, and zooplankton?
The sharp increase in water depth at the edge of continental shelf separating the coastal zone from the ocean.
What is open sea?
The process of when humans add too many nutrients into the atmosphere and therefore into the water, or just straight into the water, giving the aquatic ecosystem excess nutrients.
What is cultural eutrophication?
*gasp* EVEN MORE freshwater zones??? Yes. Suffer. The differences between the euphotic zone and the abyssal zone.
Length from the surface, amount of sunlight, type of organisms, amount of nutrients, amount of dissolved oxygen.
Define the precautionary principle.
When substantial preliminary evidence indicates that harmful activity can harm human health or the environment, we should take precautionary measures to prevent or reduce such harm even if the cause-and-effect relationships have not been fully established scientifically.
The four major factors of survival for aquatic organisms(not all factors apply to all of the animals).
What are type of temperature, amount of dissolved oxygen, availability of food, and availability of light/nutrients needed for photosynthesis?
The amount of time it takes tides to rise and fall in most coastal areas, which exposes the area of shore line between low and high tides. (BTW: You need to answer the amount of time for tides, and the name of the area of shoreline. I'll be nice and give you 250 if you answer only one correct.)
All of the differences between oligotrophic lakes and eutrophic lakes.
What is supply of plant nutrients, depth of the lake, clarity of water, and amount of net primary productivity(NPP)?
This is your DAILY DOUBLE. I suggest you try to answer it correctly, for the 1,000 points(I know, I didn't need to give you the double for the highest possible amount of points, you're welcome). Losers should pay attention...
The zone that is technically in the euphotic zone, but is also technically not a zone as it is a movement/current. Also, what is the definition of its name?
What is the upwelling zone, and what is an upward movement of ocean water, bringing cool and nutrient rich water from the bottom of ocean to the top of the ocean?
Exactly what HIPPCO stands for.
H=habitat destruction, degradation, and fragmentation
I=invasive(nonnative species)
P=population growth and increasing use of resources
P=pollution
C=climate change
O=overexploitation