Ecology & Ecosystems
The non-living components of the ecosystem, including pressure, nutrient density, temperature, humidity, salinity, etc.
What are abiotic factors?
A museum collection object used to teach or communicate science.
What is a specimen?
An organism of the phylum Mollusca that produces ink, has a beak, and ten appendages.
What is a squid?
A group of microscopic, drifting organisms.
What are plankton?
Section of the museum that depicts marine life, aquatic organisms, and ecosystems.
What is the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life?
An ecosystem characterized by the largest structure made by non-human organisms.
What are coral reefs?
An overarching theme or main idea of a presentation.
What is a narrative?
A group of organisms that have a backbone and bilateral symmetry.
What are chordates?
Organisms that live on the bottom of the sea; either crawling or permanently stuck.
What are Benthic organisms?
How the giant squid was classified by customs when entering the USA.
What is "seafood/sushi"?
Uppermost region of the ocean where photosynthesis occurs.
What is the photic (sunlight) zone?
Mode of communication characterized by back and forth of questions and answers.
What is IRE (Initiate-Respond-Evaluate)?
A phylum characterized by a tough outer layer and radial symmetry.
What are echinoderms?
The type of symbiosis represented by barnacles and whales.
What is Commensalism?
The series Erin Chapman produces for AMNH.
What is Shelf Life?
An ecosystem characterized by brackish water.
What are Estuaries?
The form of communication where the educator and visitor share equal voice and control over the direction of the conversation.
What is Reflexive Discourse?
A phylum that includes sponges.
What is porifera?
Organisms that spend their life swimming in the water column, not at the bottom.
What are Pelagic organisms?
What Professor Mercer Brugler is currently researching.
What is Black Coral or deep sea coral?
A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically; such as sea otters in the kelp forest ecosystem.
What is a Keystone species?
Erin Chapman told us an engaging topic must have either of these two factors.
What are "Wow" and "Now"?
The father of modern taxonomy. He gave us our binomial (two names) naming system.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
A symbiotic relationship in which one organisms lives within another and both benefit. This type is represented by zooxanthelle and coral.
What is Endosymbiosis?
The three teaching goals of the special exhibition Unseen Oceans.
What are:
1. New technology
2. Scientists or Methodology
3. Organisms not easily seen by humans.