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looks like clams superficially but are more primitive
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Phylum Brachiopoda |
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these produce energy by the chemical process of hydrogen sulfate |
Hydrothermal Vents |
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Phylum organism characterized by stinging cells and tentacles |
Cnidaria |
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Light penetrates 100-150 m |
Photic Zone |
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Below depth to where light can still penetrate |
Aphotic Zone |
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what is the 10 percent rule |
for every 100 pounds of plants in an area, there will be 10 pounds of herbivores and 1 pound of primary carnivores |
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what are clear and opaque bottles used for |
a way of estimating primary productivity |
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Animals with a mantle (thick leathery skin) |
Phylum Mollusca |
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means two valves or shells hinged together |
Class Bivalvia |
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Have a notochord, a bundle of nerves that extends the whole length of a body but are intervertebrates |
Phlyum Protochordata : Tunicates |
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long wavelength shallow water wave caused by rapid displacement of water |
Tsunami!! |
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periodic short term of height of the ocean surface at a particular place generated by long wavelength aggressive waves |
The tides |
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caused by the sudden movement of earth along faults |
tsunami or seismic wave |
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Pendulum like rocking of water in a closed area |
seiche |
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what is a diurnal tide |
1 high tide and 1 low tide per day |
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Fish without a backbone (sharks, skates and rays) |
cartilaginous fish |
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reptiles that must come ashore to lay their eggs |
sea turtles |
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BONii FISHES |
salmon, tuna, seahorse, solefish, marlin, swordfish |
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Warm blooded, hairy, made it back to the sea |
marine mammals |
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What is the difference between a dolphin and porpoise |
porpoises have a blunt nose and flat teeth |
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describe metabolism |
extracting and acquiring energy from food |
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how far does light penetrate into water |
100 m |
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when water moves across the membrane but salt doesn't |
osmosis |
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what are some organic compounds |
proteins and vitamiiiiniiis |
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inorganic compounds |
minerals: calcium, magnesium, selenium |
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what are organic & inorganic compounds |
nutrients |
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most important factor in the distribution of marine organism |
TEMPERATURE *TSS HOT COOOLLLLD BLOODED |
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a one-celled colonial organism |
Spongggesss Bikini Bottom. |
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most primitive fish |
lampreys |
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what do Cnidaria contain |
cnidoblasts or special stinging cells to immobilize prey |
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What is the sensory organ that fish use to hear |
Lateral Line |
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What kingdom do Lobsters and crabs belong to ? |
Animalia |
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What do you call the filter wales feeders that classify them according to their feeding mechanism? |
Baleeeen |
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The most successful Phylum on Earth if success means the number of individuals and number of species |
Arthropoda |
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Barnacles in the same group as |
Lobsters ( Animalia) |
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The pelagic? |
the open ocean environment in general |
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What organism causes red tides? |
Dinoflagellates |
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organisms on or near the sea bed? |
Benthos |
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Active organisms that can move independently of ocean currents |
Nekton |
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Organisms that live in the upper water of the ocean |
Pelagic |
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Organisms in the pelagic zone that drift with tides |
Plankton |
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Sea Butterfly |
Pteropod Thecosemata |
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What are sea-stars, sea urchins classified as and what do they possess? |
Echinoderms, they possess a water vascular system |
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animals that generate and regulate metabolic heat and have a body temperature higher than their surroundings? |
homeotherms |
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Tides that are higher during the tide cycle? What about lower? |
Spring tides- high Neap tides- low |
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Most marine organisms have an internal temperature about the same as their environment? These are? |
poikilothermic (multi-blooded) |
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group of mammals named after its fanciful resemblance to mermaids? |
sirenia |
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sea birds navigate through? |
sun angle and position of distant stars, polarized light, earths magnetic field |
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marine mammals? |
sirenia, pinnipedia, citacea |
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how do marine bird eliminate salts? |
using salts glands to extract salt from their bloods |
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bony fish are members of |
ostheichthyes |
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organisms that consume autotrophs |
heterotrophs |
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Explain a semi-diurnal tide? |
two high and two low tides of equal size every lunar day |
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What phylum are whales a part of ? |
Chordata |
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Kingdom that regards simple cellular structure |
Monera |
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Kingdom that does not describe plants or animals |
Protista |
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Kingdom of animals that obtain food through absorption |
Fungi |
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multi-cellular organisms that are autotrophic |
Plantae |
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Multicellular animals that develop an egg from a sperm |
Animalia |
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sponges |
porifera |
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jellyfish |
cnidaria |
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superficially resemble clams |
brachiopoda |
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soft bodied animals w shell |
mollusca |
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segmented worms |
annelida |
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single dorsal nerve |
chordata |
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4 limbed animal |
tetrapoda |
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zones in descending order |
epipelegaic mesopelagic bathypelagic abyssmal hadal |