Terms(if you dare)
What is an Estuary?
Where river water and seawater meet.
NAME THE RELATIONSHIP:
Sea Anemone and Clownfish
Mutualism
Which reef grows near the coastline and has shallow lagoons?
Fringing reefs
Difference between food web and food chain?
A food chain outlines who eats whom. A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem.
NAME A BONY FISH!
flying fish, sea horse, pufferfish, eels, codfish.
What is a Delta?
river meeting sea.
NAME THE RELATIONSHIP:
barnacles on whales
Commensalism
Which reefs grow directly out from the shore making them vast?
Barrier reefs
What percent of energy stays with a consumer in a food pyramid.
10%
NAME A CRUSTACEAN!
crab, copepod, crayfish, krill, shrimp, barnacles.
What is a littoral zone?
Land meeting sea.
NAME THE RELATIONSHIP:
Remora fish and sting ray
commensalism
Which reefs are isolated reefs that grow up from the open bottom of the island platform or continental shelf?
Patch reefs
What is chemosynthesis?
Bacteria making food with chemical energy.
NAME THE ZONE THAT DOES NOT RECIEVE SUNLIGHT!
Aphotic zone- below 1000 meters.
What is sedimentation?
Process of transferred eroded rocks.
NAME THE RELATIONSHIP:
coral and zooxanthellae
mutualistic
Corals are plants. True or false?
False, they are animals. In the kingdom, Animalia.
What is photosynthesis?
Transform of light energy into chemical energy.
NAME A TYPE OF CORAL!
brain coral, carnation, seafans, blue coral, lettuce coral.
Define the term niche.
Role of species within ecosystem.
NAME THE RELATIONSHIP:
copepod and sharks
parasitism
Corals Eat Plankton/Small Fish. True or False?
True.
Which plate boundary is found at mid-ocean ridge?
Divergent Boundary.
NAME ALL 5 WORLD OCEANS. (All five for credit)
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean.