Physical Oceanography
The distance wind is able to blow over open ocean.
What is fetch?
Dolphins, sharks, rays, and pelagic fish all have this coloration pattern to blend in with their environment.
What is countershading?
The term plankton means "____" and is used to describe any animal that cannot swim against ocean currents.
what is "Drifter"?
Members of phylum ____ use spicules for structural support.
What is Porifera?
The concentration of organic pollutants increases as an organism consumes lower concentrations of the pollutant over time.
What is bioaccumulation?
The density of water is determined by...
What is temperature and salinity?
This bony structure allows Osteichthyes to hear.
What is an otolith?
____ is the most speciose class of Mollusca.
What is Gastropoda?
The ____ and ____ body plans are found in organisms of the phylum Cnidaria.
What are polyp and medusa?
The loss of sea otters would results in the increase of urchins and subsequent decimation of kelp forests.
What is a trophic cascade?
This rotational force causes air to be deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
A series of fluid filled canals that act as a sensory organ to aid in predator avoidance and schooling behavor.
What is the lateral line system?
The 3 main categories of algae.
What are chlorophyta, phaeophyta, and rhodophyta?
The 3 ways corals reproduce asexually.
What are fragmentation, budding, and fission?
The 8 levels of phylogenetic classification.
What are Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
Water stratification due to salinity
What is a halocline?
While Osteichthyes have an operculum, swim bladder, otolith, and ctenoid scales, Chondrichthyes have ____.
What are gill slits, oily liver, spiracle, and placoid scales?
____ live their whole life as plankton whereas ____ only live part of their life as plankton.
What is holoplankton and meroplankton?
Corals use these 3 strategies to compete for space.
What are overgrowth, sweeper tentacles, and digestive filaments?
An organism's _____ includes all of its interactions with biotic and abiotic factors and determines its role in the environments.
What is an ecological niche?
When the sun and moon are line up you get a large tidal bulge (this happens during the full and new moons).
What is a spring tide?
3 different reproductive strategies found in Chondrichthyes.
What are oviparity, viviparity, and ovoviviparity?
Hard corals generally gain 90% of their nutrition from ____ and the other 10% through ____.
What are zooxanthellae and eating (specifically small fish, jellies, and zooplankton)?
What are (branching, massive, foliacious, plate-like, or columnar)?
This phylum has penta-radial symmetry, the capacity to regenerate a large portion of its body, and uses a complex water vascular system to move using tube feet.
What is Echinodermata?