Chemical Background
The ocean acts as a ____ ____ absorbing much of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
What is carbon sink?
Pteropods are often called sea _____
What are butterflies?
Marine animals that are covered in spines and are in the echinoderm group.
What are Sea Urchins?
What is the greatest non-man-made structure that is visible from outer space?
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
What alkaline earth metal does carbonate react with, negatively affecting marine species?
What is calcium?
Pteropods are crucial for the _____ food web
The structure of sea urchins that is made of calcium carbonate.
What are Tests/Shells?
The ocean produces over ____ % of the earth's oxygen
What is 70?
The second chemical reaction in the ocean acidification process is what?
What is the formation of carbonate and hydronium?
Pteropods are usually found ____ meters below the surface
What is 0-200?
When sea urchins overgraze kelp forests and create this low biodiversity environment.
What are Urchin Barrens?
Seals can use their _____ to detect vibrations, which allows them to hunt even when it is dark
What are whiskers?
Explain why, though overall endergonic, the ocean still continues to lower in pH
Shell dissolution, egg development, larval growth, and survival correlated with ______ saturation
What is aragonite?
This is the life stage of sea urchins that is especially vulnerable to Ocean Acidification.
What is the Pluteus/Larval Stage?
Where do you go to attend Professor de Nesnera's office hours?
What is LSB 329?
What is the overall change in Gibbs Free Energy across all the reactions that result in ocean acidification? (answer buffer + or - 20 kJ/mol)
What is 111.5 kJ/mol?
Pteropods make up ____ % of pink salmon's diet
This was the main outcome seen in sea urchins in low pH conditions without seagrass.
What is Increased Malformations and Decreased Growth?
Where did Professor de Nesnera earn her BS in biology?
What is The College of William and Mary?