The broadest taxonomic category.
What is domain?
This group includes sea stars and sea cucumbers.
What are echinoderms?
These organisms are the base of the marine food chain.
What is plankton?
Labels in scientific drawings must be written with this type of line.
What is a straight horizontal line?
These structures on bony fish help control depth in the water.
What is a swim bladder?
The taxonomic rank below "kingdom."
What is phylum?
Crabs and lobsters belong to this group.
What are crustaceans?
This type of species has a major impact on its ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
These should never cross in a diagram.
What are label lines?
These paired fins help fish steer, balance, and even hover in the water.
What are pectoral fins?
This tool helps identify organisms based on a series of choices.
What is a dichotomous key?
These fish have skeletons made of cartilage.
What are cartilaginous fish?
These plants help stabilize sediments and provide habitat.
What are marine grasses?
Drawings should use this type of pencil stroke.
What are clear, single lines?
This fin, found on the back of most fish, helps stabilize the fish and keep it upright while swimming.
What is the dorsal fin?
This system assigns each organism a two-part Latin name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
These fish have skeletons made of bone.
These fish have skeletons made of bone.
These animals are important for nutrient cycling in ecosystems.
What are decomposers?
You should not add this element in your drawing
What is shading or coloring?
These structures allow fish to extract oxygen from water as it passes over them.
What are gills?
kingdom ___ have flowers, plants, sea grasses, and mangroves
What is the kingdom Plantae
These large, plant-like organisms include kelp.
What is macroalgae?
These organisms play a role in carbon sequestration.
What is phytoplankton?
What should diagrams not be drawn based on memory, but drawn off of __
What is from direct observation?
This sensory system in fish detects vibrations and movement in the water.
What is the lateral line?