Homework Questions
Moving Water
Deep Water
Not Bio
Not Science
100
1. ______ is the group of organisms that is often at the base of food webs in open-water aquatic ecosystems.
What is plankton?
100
Freshwater ecosystems that are formed from moving water, often coming from sources in mountains and hills
What are Rivers and Streams?
100
These freshwater ecosystems can be shallow or deep, and life here is based on algae, plants, and plankton
What are Lakes and Ponds?
100
Number of planets are in the Solar System
What is 8?
100
The occupant of Loch Ness
What is "Nessie" or the Loch Ness Monster?
200
2. Aquatic organisms that grow in the sediments at the bottom of a pond or lake are called the ______.
What is benthos?
200
Aquatic ecosystem that deals with the ocean tides. Dry and in the sun at low tide, submerged during high tide
What is Intertidal Zone?
200
This is the zone in deep water that does NOT receive sunlight
What is APHOTIC zone?
200
TV series starring a girl named "11"
What is Stranger Things?
200
The Flat Earth Society claims that THIS is found at the edge of the Earth (no, this has nothing to do with Game of Thrones)
What is a giant ice wall?
300
3. What are the primary abiotic factors that affect life underwater?
What are Water Depth, Temperature, Current?
300
The process by which a Wetland ecosystem moves water through and cleans it
What is FILTRATION?
300
This is the deepest marine ecosystem
What is Open Ocean?
300
E = MC2 What does M stand for?
What is mass?
300
This is the original Superhero name of the superhero Shazam
What is Captain Marvel?
400
4. Why is it important to protect estuaries?
They are breeding and nursery grounds for ecologically and economically important aquatic species.
400
This type of moving water is formed from cooling water vapor in the air until it falls
What is rain/snow?
400
The Coastal Ocean goes from the low tide mark to the _____, where the land drops off and begins the Open Ocean
What is Continental Shelf?
400
What important ASTRONOMICAL event occurs near March 20 each year?
What is Vernal Equinox (spring equinox)?
400
The final (normal) evolution of charmander
What is Charizard?
500
Which Marine ecosystem does NOT have benthos in the PHOTIC ZONE?
What is Open Ocean?
500
This phenomena of moving water is due to the gravitational pull of the moon
What are the tides?
500
The average depth of the open ocean
What is 12,500 feet, or 2.5 miles?
500
How many days were in the 1990s?
What is 3652?
500
The name of Portugal. The Man's first single
What is Feel it Still?
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