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Fish Structures
Coastal Waters
Pollution
Fish Classes
Grab-Bag
100
Water flows in ______ direction of blood flow?
What is opposite
100
Coastal waters support about ____ of total biomass in ocean?
95%
100
What are pesticide and chemical pollutants poisoning the waters?
DDTs and PCBs
100
What class is considered to be "jaw-less"?
Agnatha
100
What is a model in science that shows the energy flow throughout an ecosystem?
Food web
200
What is a gas filled sac that helps the fish maintain buoyancy. Sharks don’t have one.
Swim Bladder
200
What is a relatively large semi-isolated body of water?
Marginal Sea
200
What is drainage from roads, canals, etc?
Non-point-source pollution and trash.
200
What class do sharks belong too?
Chondricthyes
200
What is the rule governing the percentage of energy that is passed down throughout a food web?
10% rule
300
What is used to detect vibrations, orient the fish in water, it is a line of cells running down the side of the fish.
Lateral Line System
300
What is the most diverse estuary in North America?
Indian River Lagoon
300
What is the element that poisons fish we consume?
Mercury.
300
What is are the two divisions within Osteichthyes?
Ray-finned and lobed finned.
300
What is the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings?
Ecology
400
What is a gill cover, movement of it allows more water to be drawn in.
Operculum
400
Transition zones in lagoons contain what type of water?
Brackish water
400
What is organisms concentrate pollutant from seawater
Bioaccumulation
400
Most fish fall into this class?
Osteichthyes.
400
What are the symbiotic algae that live within coral?
Zooxanthellae
500
Fish hearts are _____ loop circulation and they have a _____ chambered heart?
SINGLE loop circulation and TWO chambered heart
500
What are ecosystems that are saturated with water?
Coastal Wetlands
500
Organisms gain more pollutant by eating other organisms?
Biomagnification
500
What fish are thought to be ancestors of amphibians.
Lobed-finned fish
500
What is UCF
What is the best university in Florida?