Unit 5: Cont. Shelf and Fish
The zone that consists of the sea floor
What is benthic zone?
Water that is saltier than freshwater, but less salty than seawater.
What is brackish water?
The tail of a cetacean.
What is a fluke?
The term used to describe a carcass that falls to the bottom of the ocean and acts as a temporary ecosystem.
What is a whale fall?
The term used to describe a continental shelf habitat whose primary producer is phytoplankton.
What is a muddy-bottom habitat? OR What is a soft-bottom habitat?
Two ways that marine birds are adapted to living in or by the ocean.
-What are salt glands?
-What is oil on feathers?
-What is interlocking feathers?
-What are webbed feet?
(Other possible options!!)
Two differences between a seal and a sea lion. (specify which is which!)
What are... (must list 2)
-external ear flaps
-flipper mobility
-social vs. solitary
-larger vs. smaller
-louder vs. quieter
The term used to describe small particles of nutrients that drift down from the open ocean to the abyssal zone.
What is marine snow?
The type of coloration that is dark on the top and lighter on the bottom
What is countershading?
An estuary habitat that is periodically covered and uncovered with water and is home to many benthic invertebrates.
What is a mudflat?
The type of marine mammal that lives in colder water, hunts live prey, and is able to go up on land.
What is a pinniped?
The zone where no light can reach.
What is the aphotic zone?
The type of jawless fish that is invasive in the Great Lakes.
What is a lamprey? OR What is the Pacific lamprey?
An estuary habitat that is continuously covered with water and is home to fish and other pelagic species.
What is a channel?
The type of marine mammal that lives in warm water and has a very low body fat percentage.
What are sirenians?
The type of hydrothermal vent that is lower in temperature and contains fewer dissolved metals.
What is a white smoker?
The type of fish with bones of cartilage, uses electroreception, and gives live birth.
What are rays?
An area of land whose runoff flows into a particular river, estuary, or other body of water.
What is a watershed?
A cetacean with a single blowhole.
What is a toothed whale? What is a dolphin?
The method abyssal bacteria use to create their own energy.
What is chemosynthesis?