Open Ocean
The five oceans that make up the world's ocean.
What are the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern (Antarctic) Oceans?
The two categories of coral.
What are hard corals and soft corals?
The area of a rocky shore that is only sprayed by seawater, therefore causing these organisms to be highly adapted to avoid dessication.
What is the splash zone?
The size of sediment found on a beach.
What is sand?
The particle size that tends to make the best substrate for mangroves to take root in.
What is silt?
The term used to refer to the area of the ocean where light penetrates.
What is the photic zone?
Symbiotic, photosynthetic dinoflagellates that provide a coral with 90% of its nutrition.
What are zooxanthellae?
The area of a rocky shore with the highest levels of biodiversity.
What is the lower shore?
The type of relationship found between porosity and permeability.
What is an inverse relationship?
The type of water that best supports mangrove growth.
What is brackish water?
The three climate zones of the world's ocean.
What are the polar, temperate, and tropical zones?
The three types of coral reefs (based on shore proximity).
What are fringing, barrier, and patch reefs?
The area of the rocky shore that only is submerged during high tide and experiences the greatest variance in temperature.
What is the upper shore?
The main adaptation that most marine organisms have developed to survive on a sandy shore.
What is burrowing?
The structure that anchors the mangrove into the muddy substrate and allows for gas exchange.
What are prop roots?
The abiotic factors that would be the most extreme on the seafloor.
What are pressure and temperature?
An event in which corals reject their symbiotic dinoflagellates, thus losing their color and stopping coral growth.
What is coral bleaching?
The area of a rocky shore where wave action is the strongest.
What is the middle shore?
An abiotic factor that impacts the lack of biodiversity of a sandy shore.
What is (poor/no substrate; little ground cover/no hiding places; desiccation)?
The reproductive structure of a mangrove, formed while still attached to the parent plant.
What are propagules?
The depth zone in which we find the majority of the seafloor.
What is the abyssalpelagic (abyssopelagic) zone?
A reef formation characterized by a circular shape with a central lagoon.
What is an atoll?
The distribution of plants or animals in a vertical pattern to help minimize competition.
What is zonation?
The five organisms we watched video clips about that live on the sandy shore.
What are sand bubbler crabs, fiddler crabs, mole crabs, coquina clams, and moon snails?
The type of reproduction found in mangroves, in which the seed begins to develop while still attached to the parent plant before falling off, floating in the current for a period of time, and finally taking root in the substrate.
What is viviparous reproduction?