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Boats
Animals & Stuff
100
A predator
What is an animal that catches, kills, and eats other animals?
100
A storm system with a large low pressure system and high wind speeds
What is a tropical cyclone?
100
Able to produce organic substances by oxidising hydrogen sulphide.
What is chemosynthetic bacteria?
100
Trash that is sometimes treated before reaching seas
What is sewage?
100
diatoms, cyanobacteria, & dinoflagellates
What is phytoplankton?
200
The role of an organism in an ecosystem?
What is a niche?
200
seasonal winds of the Indian Ocean
What is a monsoon?
200
number of eggs in a fish
What is fecundity?
200
A technique used to catch species near the sea bed. A very damaging process.
What is benthic trawling?
200
Means of determining stock sizes for management purposes
What is CPUE?
300
The relationship between two different species where one benefits at the expense of the other.
What is parasitism?
300
Directs water to the right in the northern hemisphere and left in the southern hemisphere.
What is the coriolis effect?
300
•travelling to natural destinations • low impact of areas • funding local conservation • educating the traveler
What are the aims in ecotourism?
300
Keeps off barnacles and mollusks.
What is anti-fouling paint?
300
An organism whose internal osmotic concentration is the same as their surroundings.
What is an osmoconformer?
400
This depends on the salinity and temperature of the water
What is density of water due to?
400
a tide that occurs during certain phases of the moon and are generally smaller.
What is a reap tide?
400
The study of landforms and the processes involvedd in shaping them.
What is geomorphology?
400
'sound and ranging'
What is sonar?
400
The process through which internal systems ensure material are delivered to cells and tissue and waste products are removed.
What is active transport?
500
1. Oceanic volcano/island becomes colonized by reef building corals 2. Coral growth begins a fringing reef and oceanic volcano/island slowly begins to sink. 3. island continues to sink and fringing reef turns into a barrier reef. water between reef and island is a lagoon. 4. Island is completely submerged and and atoll is brought about.
What is the Darwin-Dana Daly theory of atoll formation?
500
_____ are currents driven by winds and the coriolis effect. ______ are driven by density gradients and temperature.
What are surface ocean currents and deep ocean currents?
500
the production of ATP without oxygen.
What is anaerobic respiration?
500
This keeps shipping lanes clear and extracts gravel and metal nodules from the sea bed. It harm several harsh effects on the ocean and marine life.
What is dredging?
500
Organisms kept in enclosures where they can be monitors and its environment's conditions controlled.
What is internal aquaculture?
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