Miscellaneous
Primary Productivity
Open Ocean
Coastal Zones
Inland Zones
100
How the oceans distribute solar energy and stabilize climate change.
What do Ocean Currents do?
100
The sun
Where does solar energy come from?
100
The Euphotic Zone
Where in the open ocean are most producers found?
100
Single-celled green Dinoflagllates
Who are the primary producers in a coral reef community?
100
Streams
What do we call the water channels that transport runoff from higher elevations on land to the sea?
200
They absorb dissolved gases from the atmosphere.
How do oceans regulate the composition of the atmosphere?
200
Process that plants use to convert solar energy, carbon dioxide, and water into sugars, water, and oxygen.
What is Photosynthesis?
200
Squid, octopi, shrimp, and a few tough fish.
What creatures live in the Bathyal Zone?
200
Limnetic zone
What part of a lake gets enough light for plants to grow?
300
Type r selection
What is the most common reproduction strategy for sea creatures?
300
Producers
What do we call organisms that carry out Photosynthesis?
300
The abyssal zone
What is the name of the deepest and totally dark part of the ocean?
300
Coastal Wetlands
What part of the coastal zone is shallow enough that grasses provide most of the NPP?
300
Littoral zone
What part of the lake is near the shore.
400
Mammals such as seals, dolphins, and whales.
What are some sea animals that are k-strategists.
400
Net Primary Production
What do we call the energy that producers make available to the food web?
400
Mangrove swamps
What is a kind of floating vegetation mat that is tied to the bottom with countless roots.
400
Inland wetlands
What inland ecosystem acts like a sponge to regulate water flow?
500
Convection currents
What moves heat around on Earth?
500
Phytoplankton
What provides most of the primary production in the open ocean?
500
Limited sunlight penetration of the water column and low mineral nutrient levels.
Why is primary production in the open ocean lower that we would expect?
500
Living Coral
What have Dinoflagellates coevolved with?
500
Eutrophic lakes
What lakes have plenty of nutrients and are shallow so primary production is high.
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