Intertidal Zone
The area where the intertidal zone is located.
What is between the high and low tide? Or on marine shorelines?
The area that the Neritic zone is located.
What is from the low tide line to the edge of the continental shelf?
The area that the open ocean is located.
What is the area that extends past the Neritic Zone over the continental slope and abyssal plain?
Describe why phytoplankton are important.
What is that they form the base of the food web in marine ecosystems (primary producers)?
Describe why zooplankton are important.
What is that they provide a food source for larger organisms like krill do for whales?
List 3 major habitats associated with the intertidal zone.
What are estuaries, rocky shores, and sandy shores?
List 2 major habitats associated with the Neritic Zone.
What are coral reefs and kelp forests?
List a major habitat that is associated with the deep zone of the open ocean.
What is a hydrothermal vent ecosystem?
Name a specific type of phytoplankton (you saw these in the lab).
What are dinoflagellates, diatoms, radiolarians, foraminiferans, cyanobacteria, etc?
Name a specific type of zooplankton that you saw in the lab.
What are nematodes, planarians, tardigrades (water bears), insect larvae, snail, larvae, etc?
The challenges that organisms living in this zone must cope with (and have adaptations for).
What are harsh sunlight, changing temperature, changing salinity, and changing water levels?
The organism that plays an important role in the kelp forest ecosystem by eating sea urchins.
What is a sea otter?
The challenges that organisms living in the open ocean must cope with.
What are little sunlight and few nutrients?
Name an organism that is an example of picoplankton. Hint = it was one of the stations in your lab
What is cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)?
Name an organism that is an example of megaplankton.
What is a jellyfish?
Name an organism that lives in rocky shore ecosystems.
Examples = barnacles, mussels, limpets (china caps), sea anemones, sea stars, etc.
The microscopic organism that lives symbiotically in the tissues of reef-forming corals.
What is a phytoplankton called zooxanthellae (a type of dinoflagellate)?
Name the only light zone in the open ocean where there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis to occur.
What is the Euphotic Zone?
The light zone that phytoplankton are found in.
What is the Euphotic Zone?
The name for an organism that begins life as a plankton and then either becomes a benthos or a nekton as an adult.
What is meroplankton?
Name an organism that lives in sandy shores.
examples = sand dollars, sea shells, sandpipers, etc.
Describe the geological process of reef formation in 3 steps.
(1) fringing reef, (2) barrier reef, (3) atoll
Name a specific adaptation that organisms living in the deep zone have in order to deal with the lack of light.
What is bioluminescence?
Draw an example of a phytoplankton and include its name.
See teacher for correct response.
Draw an example of a zooplankton and include its name.
See teacher for correct response.