Oceans
These are the 4 principal oceans
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic
Living systems are examples of Complex ____ Systems
what is Adaptive
These are some sources of marine pollution
Ocean mining operations
Fishing practices
Sewage sludge disposed of at sea
Runoff of pollutant material from land
Use of seawater for human benefit
Marine transportation
Represents sharp salinity gradient with depth
Represents a sharp temperature gradient with depth
what is a halocline
what is a thermocline
Lots of nutrients cause this
What is Eutrophication
These are the 3 major macroscopic Algae
What is Green, red and brown
This is the order you classify an animal(think taxonomy)
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phyum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
This is any type of pollution entering the ocean from multiple sources rather than from a discrete source, point, or location.
Non-point source pollution(aka poison runoff)
eg. runoff in urban areas through storm drains
These are the 4 types of estuaries based on geologic origin
coastal plain estuary:Forms as sea level rises and floods existing river valleys
fjord: Forms in valleys carved by glaciers
bar built estuary: Shallow and separated from open ocean by sand bars deposited parallel to coast by wave action
tectonic estuary: Forms when folding or faulting rocks generates down dropped area
These are the 3 feeding strategies
What is Suspension feeding, Deposit feeding and Carnivorous Feeding
These are the layers of the ocean
Epipelagic(0-200m)
Mesopelagic(200m-1000m)
Bathypelagic (1000m-4000m)
Abyssopelagic(>4000m)
These are the 6 kingdoms of Life
What is Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
These are the toxic metals that can come from pollutants
What is lead, cadmium, copper and mercury
These are the 4 major types of stabilization structures
groins and groin fields
jetties
breakwaters
seawalls
Factors affecting primary productivity
What is Nutrient Availability and Availability of solar radiation
These are the two major processes that can change sea level
What is local tectonic processes that raise or lower earth's crust and worldwide changes in sea level
These are the different adaptations animals have for the marine world(there are many but name a few and how that can affect them in the water)
What is
Movement: the shape of the animal
Size: high surface area to volume ratio, have appendages to increase surface area, large mobile animals have tapered/flattened body to increase streamlining
Reproductive strategies: broadcast spawning vs sexual
These are simple tips that you can do in your daily lives to help reduce marine pollution
These are the features of a drift aligned shoreline
What is
Bay barrier or bay mouth bar: seals off a lagoon from the ocean
spit: connects at the one end to the mainland and hooks into a bay at the other end
tombolo: sand bar that connects an island to the mainland
barrier island: long offshore sand desposits that parallel the cost
Solar energy affects 3 major ocean components
The Ocean temperature is more stable than land for these four reasons
higher heat capacity
ocean warming reduced by evaporation
solar radiation penetrates deeply into ocean layers
ocean mixing
These are the characteristics of warm water animals
What is plankton usually smaller, more appendages, grow faster, live shorter and reproduce more, more species, less biomass
These are the long term and short term effects of oil spills on organisms
short term: Marine organism fur or feathers lose insulation properties when covered in oil and high fatality rates
Long term: change gene expression, developmental abnormalities and decreased embryo survival
These are the two major types of shores along with the type of sediment you'd find at each and characteristics
Erosional shores: high energy environments, high exposure, large fetch, high energy waves, pacific coast, sea arches, sea stacks
Depositional shores: low energy environment, small fetch, low energy waves, Gulf coast and US Atlantic, swash aligned beaches, drift aligned beaches
Regions of high primary productivity where there is:
What is
equatorial upwelling: trade winds diverge surface waters and surface waters replaced by nutrient rich deep waters
coastal upwelling: displaced surface waters replaced by nutrient rich waters from 200-900m
Coral reefs: sybiotic algae and recyle nutrients within ecosystem