Oceans Study Guide Phylums

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Anthropoda

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Crabs shrimp, barnacles, copepods, krill, most successful phylum

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Bivalvia

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Class of phylum Mollusca that includes clams, oysters, and mussels

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Carnivora

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Order of mammals that includes seal, sea lions, walruses, and sea otters

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Cephalopoda

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Class of Phylum Mollusca that includes squid, octupi, and nautiluses

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Chordata

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Phylum of mammals, reptiles, birds,, tunicates, amphioxes, fishes, amphibians

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Cnidaria

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Phylum of Corals, Jellyfish, and sea anemones, 2 body forms: Free swimming, polyp

Three Classes: Antozoa, Hydrozoa, and Schyzoa Class

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Crustacea

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Class of Anthropoda that lobsters, shrimp, crabs, barnacles, and copepods belong

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Echinodermata

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Phylum of Sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers, water-vascular system

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Fissipedia

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Carnivoran suborder that includes sea otters

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Gastropoda

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Class of Phylum Mollusca that includes snails and sea slugs

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Commensalism

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Symbolic interaction between two species, one benefits, neither harmed

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Estuary

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Body of water that has mixed ocean water and fresh water, creating area of remarkable biological productivity

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Extremophile

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Organism capable of tolerating extreme environmental conditions, especially temperature or pH level

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Holothuroidea

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Class of phylum echinodermata to which sea cucumbers belong

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Medusa

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Class of Cnidaria, free-swimming body form of many of the members of Cnidaria

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Mollusca

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Phylum of Chitons, Snails, clams, and octopuses

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Nematoda

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Phylum made up of Round worms

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Osteichthyes

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Class of fishes with bony skeletons, Cordata phylum

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Parasitism

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Most common symbiotic relationship; one species spents part or all of it's life cycle on or within the host species using it as a source of nutrients

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Pinnipedia

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The carnivoran suborder that contains the seals, sea lions, and walruses

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Platyhelminthes

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Phylum made up of Flatworms

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Polychaeta

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Largest and most diverse class of phylum Annelida, each segment has spines

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Polyp

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One of two body forms of Cnidaria, cup shaped and possess rings of tentacle. coral animals are polyps

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Porifera

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Phylum of sponges

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How is climax community related to succession?

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Climax communities are the result of long term succession

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Succession

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Orderly change of species composition from temporary inhabitants to long-term inhabitants

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Coral reef communities vs open ocean deep sea communities

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Coral Reef: Less movement, thick skin and toxins for defense
Open-Ocean: Fast swimming species, either have ability to migrate or drift

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Sandy Beach Habitats

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Less diverse
Physical Factors: Loose Substrate, shifting sand, waves
Adaptations: Ability to burrow, Filter feed or scavenge

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Molting, who molts and in what phylum is this important

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Molting is shedding external covering, phylum anthropoda uses this most commonly