Waves and Tides
Large waves that result from a large displacement of water and can cause major damage.
What is a tsunami?
The naming and grouping of related organisms, which is also the study of biological classification.
What is Taxonomy?
A major food source for bacteria and small zooplankton that is transferred up the food chain to other consumers.
What is the DOM (dead organic matter)?
What is plankton?
Animals that first appeared 300 million years ago and thrived in the ocean in the Age of Reptiles.
What are marine reptiles?
The periodic, short term change in the height of the surface of the ocean at a particular place.
What are tides?
Organisms on Earth that are classified into three major domains, bacteria, archaea, and eukarya.
What is the tree of life?
Prokaryotic (pro-karee-oh-tic) organisms that are structurally simple and are incredibly abundant in the marine ecosystems.
What is bacteria?
Phytoplankton and Zooplankton are two types of ________.
What are the two types of plankton?
Ribbon ____, Nematodes, Segmented ____, and Peanut ____ are all types of _____.
What are some types of worms?
Low tides, spring tides, neap tides, and high tides are an example of _____ that are influenced by land masses and basin shape.
What are tidal patterns?
The link between photosynthesis in producers and respiration in producers, consumers, and decomposers.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
Diatoms, Dinoflagellates, and Zooxanthellae are types of ________.
What are the types of unicellular algae?
Autotrophic plankton that generate glucose through the process of photosynthesis.
What is phytoplankton?
Animals like jellyfishes, sea anemones, and corals are examples of _____.
What are some gelatinous animals?
1. Waves that are created by a force the disturbs the medium. (Hint: examples are winds, volcanic eruptions, landslides, etc.)
2. Waves that are classified by the dominant force that returns the water surface to flatness.
1. What are disturbing force waves?
2. What are restoring force waves?
A cycle that uses free nitrogen that is present in the atmosphere.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Animal-like unicellular eukaryotic organisms that are structurally simple. They are also made up of several groups of organisms that are unrelated origins.
What are protozoans?
Heterotrophic plankton, or platonic organisms that eat primary producers.
What is zooplankton?
Living things that have a vertebral column or spine which we call a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
1. When gravity in our solar system tends to pull the Earth and the moon toward each other, but centrifugal inertia keeps them apart, thus the moon is in a stable orbit around the Earth.
2. When the sun's gravity attracts the Earth's mass.
1. What are lunar tides?
2. What are solar tides?
The genus and species classification, which is the two naming systems introduced by Carl Linnaeus.
What is binomial nomenclature?
What is cyanobacteria?
Species that are fundamental for keeping an ecosystem intact such that when they are removed, the ecosystem dramatically changes.
(Hint: example = krill)
What is a keystone species?
Spiny-skinned animals that include sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, feather stars, and sea lilies.
What are echinoderms (uh-kai-nuh-derms)?