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What are intertidal zone, neritic zone, open-ocean zone?
What are the three ocean zones?
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What is pounding waves, salinity changes, temperature changes, periods of time being underwater and periods of time being out of the water.
What are four things organisms in the rocky intertidal zone have to tolerate?
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What is true?
T or F: the most variety of organisms are found in the neritic zone.
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What is surface zone, transition zone, and deep zone?
What three zones is the open-ocean zone divided into?
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Intertidal: starts at highest high tide line, ends at lowest low tide line
Neritic: low tide line to edge of continental shelf Open ocean: past edge of continental shelf
Where are the intertidal zone, neritic zone, and open-ocean zone located?
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What is plankton, nekton, benthos
What are the three categories of ocean life?
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What is mangrove forests and salt marshes?
What are two types of coastal wetland?
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What is enough sunlight for plankton to grow and substantial nutrients brought up by upwelling?
Why are many organisms able to survive in the neritic zone?
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What is bioluminescence?
What is the production of light by living things called?
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Producers: photosynthetic plankton
Consumers: other plankton, nekton, and benthos Decomposers: many benthos and other organisms
In a food web, what are the producers, consumers, and decomposers?
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What is free-swimming throughout the water column?
What are the characteristics of nekton?
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What is estuaries?
__________ are coastal inlets or bays where freshwater mixes with saltwater.
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What is a ring shaped reef surrounding a shallow lagoon?
What is an atoll?
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What is hydrothermal vent?
Where does hot water rise out of cracks in the ocean floor?
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What is cleanup efforts and laws passed to regulate rivers water quality?
How has pollution in estuaries near the Chesapeake Bay?
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What is living on the ocean floor; some move around but others do not?
What are the characteristics of benthos?
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What is mud, cordgrass
A salt marsh oozes with smelly ______. What is the most abundant plant that grows in a salt marsh?
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What is cold neritic areas with rocky bottoms?
Where do kelp forests grow?
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What is hot water with gases and minerals.
Briefly describe what comes out of a hydrothermal vent.
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Problems: 1) no light 2) scarce food
Solutions : 1) bioluminescence 2) sharp teeth to capture scarce prey -->anglerfish
What are two problems and solutions in the deep zone?
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What is food web?
All of the feeding relationships that exist in a habitat make up a ____________________.
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What is mangrove trees? Mangrove forests
What are short, gnarled trees that typically grow in brackish water? _____________ are found in southern Florida and along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.
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What is algae live in corals; they provide food for the corals. Algae are not able to survive without sunlight, so corals will starve without algae-->if they grow in cold areas.
Why do corals only grow in shallow, tropical waters?
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What is lack of food, high pressure, low temperatures, and no light?
What are some of the things organisms in the deep zone will have to adapt to?
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What is 1, desert?
The transition zone extends from the bottom of the surface zone to about ____ kilometer(s). The deep ocean is compared to a _________.
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