The range of specific gravity that a saltwater aquarium should be in.
What is 1.020-1.024 g/ml?
100
They developed rudimentary mapping using sticks and stones and completed the earliest known long distance open ocean seafaring journey.
Who are the Polynesians?
100
The two main factors that affect the density of water.
What are temperature and salinity?
100
The four major layers of Earth in sequential order.
What are the Crust ----> Mantle ----> Outer Core -----> and Inner Core?
100
This is known as the reduction of available energy that is transferred from one trophic level to the next in an ecological pyramid.
What is the 10% rule? (90% reduction)
200
The most effective way for maintaining water quality in a saltwater aquarium.
What is Biological Filtration? (coupled with partial water changes and a plants to remove nitrates)
200
He calculated the circumference of the Earth with an extraordinarily high accuracy using triangulation, the sun, and the changing shadow of a stick throughout the day. He was only off 32 Km from the current accepted value. Jesus! or rather...Zeus!
Who is Eratosthenes?
200
Due to the polarity of water and the fact that more substances dissolve in water than any other chemical, water is known as this.
What is the universal solvent?
200
Directly below the Lithosphere, this layer is highly viscous, mechanically weak, and highly ductile and located in the upper mantle.
What is the asthenosphere?
200
The three main sources of nutrient input in the marine environment.
What are coastal runoff, upwelling, and input from rivers?
300
The most toxic substance that accumulates in an aquarium
What is ammonia?
300
They led a renewed effort to explore Europe, developed a marine institution to refine sailing skills, and funded the treacherous trip around the Southern tip of Africa, Cape Agulhas, establishing an Eastern trade route to India via the exploits of Bartholomeu Diaz and Vasco de Gama.
Who are the Portugese?
300
The factors responsible for prevailing wind patterns of Earth.
What is uneven solar heating and the Earth's Spin?
300
He proposed the existence of the super continent Pangaea and the theory of Continental Drift and give a reason for why the theory was not accepted at first.
Who is Alfred Wegner and he was a meteorologist that could not explain how continents drifted as well as gaps in the jigsaw model?
300
The depth where the net growth rate of phytoplankton is zero and the equation for how it is measured. YES! I'm totally serious!
What is the compensation depth? and Net photosynthetic rate - cellular respiration + grazing + advection + sinking + mortality + viral lysis
400
The function of the nitrifying bacteria in a salt water aquarium (both species)?
What is to convert ammonia to nitrite (nitrosomonas) and nitrite to nitrate (nitrobacter)?
400
He invented the chronometer which allowed for an accurate calculation of longitude.
Who is John Harrison?
400
Wind driven motion of dense, cooler, nutrient rich water towards the Epipelagic Zone.
What is upwelling?
400
This vessel drilled holes in the seafloor to gather sediment evidence to support seafloor spreading.
What is the Glomar Challenger?
400
Anything that will prevent the increase in population of a specific species and include 3 biotic and 3 abiotic examples.
What is a limiting factor? Biotic: competition, predation, disease & Abiotic: TURBIDITY, Nutrients, sunlight, oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc.
500
The safe levels of ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate in an aquarium.
What is zero, zero, 40 ppm (20 ppm preferred) respectively?
500
The name of the vessel that descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, the name of the vessel that explored the Titanic wreckage, and the name of the vessel that explored the Space Shuttle Challenger wreckage. DAILY DOUBLE
What are the Trieste, Alvin, and Johnson Sealink, respectively?
500
Wind pushing deep water to shallower shore areas and the resultant action of water getting pushed over itself is known as this.
What are breakers?
500
The four main pieces of evidences that support seafloor spreading theory.
1. Thinner sediment at ridges
2. Thicker sediment at subduction zones.
3. Radiometric Dating- Old crust near subduction and new crust near ridges
4. Magentic Anomalie
500
Name and describe all 8 type of plankton we learned. YES! I KNOW, Right. Or rather...YOU DO! DAILY DOUBLE!
What are Virioplankton, Bacterioplankton, Meroplanton, Holoplankton, Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, Picoplankton, and Macroplanton?