VOCAB - I should know
A group of similar organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
SPECIES
What year were Hydrothermal Vents discovered?
1977
type of environment where freshwater and salt water mi
ESTUARY
stony formation that is built up from the ocean floor by living organisms
CORAL REEF
The largest coral reef is the Great Barrier Reef LOCATED WHERE?
AUSTRALIA
Can fix inorganic molecules into organic substances.
AUTOTROPHS
What organism is the base of life in hydrothermal vents?
TUBE WORMS / Chemosynthetic bacteria
areas where grasses grow abundantly in shallow waters
SALT MARSH
Coral reefs are found in ____________ and _______________ waters
TROPICAL , SUBTROPICAL
microscopic photosynthetic organisms that live in the photic zone.
PHYTOPLANKTON
a string of coral islands that form a circle around a sunken island
Atoll reef
What lives inside the tubeworm
Chemosynthetic bacteria
- - part of an estuary environment characterized by dark muddy sand and no grasS
MUDFLAT
Coral reefs form when coral polyps combine calcium and carbon dioxide in their tissue and excreted __________________. This is what corals are made out of.
Calcium carbonate
____________ is the process in which ALL LIVING THINGS release the chemical energy stored in organic molecules
RESPIRATION
how much nrg is “fixed” into carbohydrates (organic matter)
Primary productivity
Captures the chemical energy of dissolved minerals to turn carbon dioxide into organic molecules.
Chemosynthesis
trees that grow in tropical salt water conditions that act as complex filtering systems
MANGROVES
_____________ ARE tiny mound of tissue (related to sea anemones and jellyfish) that contains a saclike digestive tract
CORAL POLYPS
Amount of light or chemical nrg fixed by producers in a given time for a given area. (total biomass created)
GPP
the transition between the warm and cold water temperatures in the ocean.
THERMOCLINE
The species that live IN HYDROTHERMAL VENTS are _______________- organisms that are able to survive extreme temperatures, pressure, salinity and pH.
EXTREMOPHILES
100 miles long and home to over 120 different types of marine life. Freshwater comes from the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames Rivers
The Estuaries of THE Long Island Sound
a reef running parallel to the shore but separated from it by a channel of deep water
Barrier reef
looooong bacteria that can fix sulfur compounds into carbs
Thiothrix or Beggiatoa