Marine Invertebrates
Animals are multicellular eukaryotes, these are the earliest animals on this planet, vertebrates came later.
What is marine invertebrates?
The distance between two identical points (adjacent crests or troughs).
What is Wavelength ?
Karenia brevis excessive growth in a body of water that can seriously harm people, animals, fish, and other parts of the ecosystem.
What is a harmful algal bloom?
An __________ may also be called a bay, lagoon, sound, or slough.
Where a river's freshwater meets the sea.
What are estuaries?
What are river mouths?
The main greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor. Name the greenhouse gas in the stratosphere, that forms a protective barrier from ultraviolet sunlight.
What is ozone?
The group of marine invertebtrates that jellyfish, coral, sea anemones belong to.
What is Cnidaria?
The number of waves passing a point each second
What is Frequency ?
Name two of the top six ocean pollutants.
What are plastics, nutrients from fertilizer runoff, nonpoint sources, light, noise, industrial chemicals and wastewater?
Snails, barnacles, bryozoans, tunicates, mollusks, sponges, isopods, amphipods, shrimps, crabs, and jellyfish all live either on or in close proximity to these stabilizing florae.
What are Mangrove forests?
The coastlines and low-lying lands make these states particularly vulnerable to the damaging impacts of sea level rise. Name two of these states.
What is Florida and Louisiana ?
The Mollusca group comprises.
What are shellfish, snails and squids
The height of the wave from 0 displacement (normal) to the peak at its highest point.
What is Amplitude?
The average fish contains about___________ in their bodies.
Two to three times as much ____________ is carried out to sea via runoff from our roads, rivers and drainpipes than during spills.
What is 3 to 4 different microplastics.
What is crude oil / fossil fuel ?
This sun kissed state has one of the most active artificial reef programs in the U.S. More than 3,800 planned public artificial reefs have been deployed since the 1942.
What is Florida?
“Osteoporosis of the sea a condition that eats away at the minerals
What is Ocean acidification.
The groups that Marine sponges belong to.
What is Porifera ?
Can be calculated by multiplying frequency by wavelength
What is Wave speed?
Name two countries most responsible for contributing to marine plastic pollution, according to the most recent data (2023).
What are: Philippines, India, Malaysia, or China
Large brown protists that live in cool, relatively shallow waters close to the shore.
What is Kelp or Kelp forests?
The ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the Earth's warming since at least 1971, mostly near the surface. Global average sea level has risen 8-9 inches since 1880, in part because of ______________.
What is thermal expansion of water as it warms?
The groups that Marine sea stars belong to.
Echinoderms
Wind-generated waves that have travelled out of their generating area.
What is Swells and Surfs?
These generate excess nutrients in the form of uneaten food pellets and animal waste, which can be flushed into nearby waters and cause diseases.
What are fish farms.
Nearshore hardbottom, part of the inner coral reef system located closest to shore, is an important habitat for ___________as well as for a variety of invertebrates and algae
What is juvenile fish and sea turtles?
The world is losing species at a rate 1,000 times greater than at any other time in recorded human history. One million species are at risk of becoming extinct within the next few decades. This is a direct result of.
This gas is responsible for around 30% of the rise in global temperatures since the industrial revolution.
What is global warming or climate change?
What is methane?