Taxonomy
Drifters
Kingdom Protista
Resources
Miscellaneous
100
Phylum of starfish, sea cucumbers, and urchins
Echinodermata
100
plants and animals that float on the ocean currents are called
Plankton
100
Chlorphytas are a group of what color algae?
Green
100
Sea farming is also called
Aquaculture or mariculture
100
What is the name for decaying plant and animal material?
Detritus
200
Phylum of sharks, bony fish, turtles, and dolphins
Chordata
200
form of an organism that is immature and very different looking from the adult organism
larvae
200
Dinoflagellates use this whip like hair for locomotion
Flagella
200
Type of rock where oil deposits are found in the ocean
Reservoir
200
To remove sediment from the ocean floor by digging or suction is called
Dredging
300
Phylum of lobsters, crabs, and shrimp
Arthropoda
300
What are the two types of plankton, and what is the difference between them?
Phytoplankton (plant like) and Zooplankton (animal like)
300
a single-celled holoplankton with a transparent body or shell
Diatom
300
Fish are a renewable or non renewable resource?
Renewable
300
Name the 3 types of reefs (coral reefs is not an answer!)
Barrier, fringing, atoll
400
Phylum of jellyfish, corals, and anemones
Cnidaria
400
Phytoplankton must live in this ocean zone
Photic
400
Phaeophyta is a group of what color algae?
Red
400
Name 3 resources that come from the ocean
Oil, minerals, manganese nodules, water, energy, food
400
Name 3 parts of a kelp plant or other seaweed.
blade, stipe, holdfast, air bladder
500
Phylum of sponges
Porifera
500
What is the most common type of phytoplankton and zooplankton?
Diatoms and Copepods
500
Name one seaweed extract
Carageenan, algin, or agar
500
Why is oil called a fossil fuel?
It is made from the fossils of plants and animals that died millions of years ago
500
List the 7 taxonomic groups in order from largest to smallest, after domain.
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
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