Marine Bio

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There are more than ___ identified marine species.

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250,000

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Most of the marine species live where?

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sunlit surface seawater

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a species success depend on the ability to

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find food, avoid predation, reproduce and cope with physical barriers to movement.

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The three domains are

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Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya.

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The five kingdoms are

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Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia

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Monera is the

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simplest organisms and are single celled

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Protista is the

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single and multicelled with nucleus

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Plantae is the

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multicelled photosynthetic plants

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Animalia is the

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multicelled animals

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who developed basis of modern classification of organisms?

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Carolus Linnaeus

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Taxonomy

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systematic classification of organisms

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The units of taxonomy are

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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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Plankton are

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floaters

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Nekton are

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swimmers

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Benthos are

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bottom dwellers

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Phytoplankton are

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autotrophic

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Zooplankton are

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heterotrophic and eat phytoplankton

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Bacterioplankton contains

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bacteria

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virioplankton has a

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virus

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holoplankton spends

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entire life as plankton

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meroplankton are shrimp and they spend

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part of their lives as plankton

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macroplankton

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very large

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picoplankton

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very small

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Nekton are

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independent swimmers

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what lives on the surface of the sea floor?

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Epifauna

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what lives in buried sediments?

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infauna

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Benthos are most abundant in

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shallower waters

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Bacteria-like archaeon produce what? and where does this happen?

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food using heat and chemicals;
hydrothermal vents

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marine species overwhelmingly ______ than ______

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Benethic(98%); pelagic(2%)

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the marine environment is more stable than the

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land

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fewer appendages in
more appendages in

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cold seawater
warm seawater

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high surface to

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volume ratio

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oil in micro-organisms to increase

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buoyancy

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more stable than land for four reasons:

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-higher heat capacity of water
-ocean warming reduced by -evaporation
-solar radiation penetrates deeply into ocean layers
-ocean mixing

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tropical organisms

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grow faster, live shorter, reproduce more often

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stenothermal

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organisms withstand small variation in temperature

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eurythermal

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organisms withstand large variation in temperature

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stenohaline

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organisms withstand only small variation in salinity

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euryhaline

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organisms withstand large variation in salinity

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gills exchange what directly with seawater?

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oxygen and carbon dioxide

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what varies amoung animals

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gill structure and location

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camouflage

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through color patterns

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countershading

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dark on top, light on bottom

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many marine organisms have no

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inner air pockets and a collapsable rib cage

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pelagic mean

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open sea

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benthic means

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sea floor

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Euphotic

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surface to where enough light exsists to support photosynthesis

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Disphotic

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small but measurable quantities of light

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Aphotic

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no light