Symmetry
Porifera have this type of symmetry
What is Asymmetry
These group of organisms are known as pore bearing, and have assymetry
What is Porifera?
These organisms are multicellular, have nuclei and eat other organisms for nutrients
What is animalia?
What is oceanography?
The four unique properties of water that make it unique are:
High specific heat
High polarity
Adhesion cohesion
A lower density as a solid
Jellyfish, Coral and Sea Anemone have this type of symmetry
What is radial symmetry?
Known as segmented worms, they have bilateral symmetry
What is Annelida?
This Swedish botanist developed the binomial nomenclature system, which assigns a two-part scientific name to each organism.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
An American marine biologist, she led the first all female team and set a record for the first untethered deep dive in 1979
Who is Sylvia Earle?
This is the measure of suspended solids in the water
Turbidity
Starfish have this specific symmetry
What is 5-point radial symmetry?
Crabs and ants are part of this phylum.
What is arthropoda?
This is the broadest and most inclusive category in biological classification, consisting of animals, plants, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria.
What is a kingdom?
Who is Jacques Cousteau?
NTU is the abbreviated format of this measurement
Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU)
Planaria, flukes and tapeworms have this symmetry
What is bilateral symmetry?
Crocodiles, Alligators, Frogs and Humans are part of this phylum.
What is a cordate?
This term refers to the evolutionary history and relationships among individuals or groups of organisms
What is phylogeny?
Skilled navigators and seafarers, these were a plundering group of people from Scandinavia that made stops for trade in North Africa and Europe within the late 8th century
What is a Nordic Viking?
A tool used to measure the clarity of water by lowering it into the water until it's no longer visible, and then measuring the depth
What is a secchi disk
These three organisms, when cut in half can grow into two new identical organisms. Name the three phylums.
What is Annelida, Platyhelminthes, and Nematoda
These organisms have bilateral symmetry and contain snails, clams, as well as octopus.
What is a mollusc?
This group of single celled organisms consists of a green-blue bacterium known as cyanobacterium.
What is Monera?
This group of mariners made their boats out of papyrus, and sailed up the Nile river
What are the Ancient Egyptians
This unit of measure means 1/100
What is a centimeter