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100
Describe the mating process of the angler fish
Male bites female, digestive enzymes melt it.
100
What general zone of the ocean to nekton swim?
What is pelagic zone?
100
What is the lowest pelagic zone?
What is hadeopelagic
100
The Coriolis effect predicts a ___deflection in the northern hemisphere and a ___deflection in the southern hemisphere
What is right/left
100
What is a hagfish?
What is a slime eel?
200
What zone of the ocean to crabs live in?
What is the benthic zone
200
What is the name of the zone where photosynthesis can take place?
What is the photic zone/epipelagic zone
200
What are animals that live in the benthic zone classified as?
What are benthos?
200
The tropic of cancer is at ____ and the tropic of capricorn is at ____ (looking for coordinates)
What is 23.5N/S
200
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
What is Alfred Wegener
300
What are cracks along the ocean floor (in the center of sea-floor spreading)?
What are mid-ocean ridges?
300
What volcanic rock covers the ocean floor?
What is basalt?
300
What are two types of biogenous material?
What is calcereous ooze and silicious ooze.
300
The arctic circles are at ____ N/S (coordinates)
What is 66.5N/S
300
Two sub continents of pangea are
What is Laurasia and Gondwanaland
400
What is the zone that describes the high tide mark and shallow ocean?
What is the littoral zone?
400
The mesopelagic zone AKA "The Twilight Zone" is characterized by its...
meager amount of light, not enough for photosynthesis
400
This organism contributes to silicious ooze. It is made of....
What are diatoms...made of silica.
400
This type of benthos lives off of the remains of dead organism that float down to it.
What is a substrate feeder?
400
HH Hess proposed that these drive continental drift
What is convection currents
500
What are horizontal cracks along mid-ocean ridges?
What are fracture zones?
500
Animals in the deep zones have these traits
Generally weak, lack of pigment, simple eyes.
500
The intertidal zone is defined as
What is the space between the high and low tide marks
500
If you stood on the ocean floor, your head would touch the upper limit of this
What is the demersal zone?
500
What are sea floor geographic features called?
What are bathygraphic features?
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