Week 1-5
The portion of a scientific name that is capitalized.
What is the genus.
The function you are using in Excel when your cursor is a black plus sign.
What is the fill function?
The scientific name of the species we used in our experiment.
What is Alitta virens?
The units of salinity.
What is parts per thousand (ppt) OR practical salinity units (PSU)?
Squidward from the cartoon "Spongebob Squarepants" belongs to this taxonomic class.
What is Cephalopoda.
Morphological feature commonly referred to as TAR.
What is the Tail Aspect Ratio.
The movement of water down its concentration gradient, usually through a semipermeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
The symbol used to lock cells when using formulas in Excel.
What is the dollar sign?
The 5 named oceans on planet Earth.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Artic, and Southern (Antarctic) oceans?
Slang for when someone is angry, irritated, or hostile.
What is salty?
Tapetails, Bignose fish, and this other group of fish, all belong to the Family Cetomimidae.
What are whalefish?
The file extension for all Excel files.
What is .xlsx.
An organism that is able to maintain their internal osmotic concentration independent of their environment.
What is an osmoregulator?
The average salinity of the ocean.
What is 35ppt (or within 5ppt)?
The deepest part of the Mariana Trench.
What is Challenger Deep?
Measurement of fish from the nose of the fish to the end of the tail.
What is the total length?
The information that follows the list of authors in both APA style citations and the citation style outlined by Pechenik.
What is the year? (What is the year of publication?)
What is tare?
The smallest known marine mammal.
What is a sea otter?
In "Finding Nemo" (2003), Mr. Ray sings about these.
Quote: "...There's epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, abyssopelagic, and all the rest are too deep for you and me to see..."
What are oceanic zones. (Zones of the open sea)
Autotrophic, holoplankton, with an outer shell made of silica called a frustule.
What is a diatom?
Having a lower osmotic pressure than a particular fluid, typically a body fluid or intracellular fluid.
What is hypotonic?
The tool used to measure salinity during the Alitta lab.
What is a refractometer?
Major currents of the North Atlantic (2 of 4)
What are the Gulf Stream, Canary Current, Labrador Current, or North Atlantic Current?
The attribute of the ocean that poses a great threat in the horror/sci-fi movie "Underwater" (2020), where workers are trapped in a damaged oil rig at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
What is pressure? (What is the weight of water?)