1st Semester Exam Review Flashcards
3 primary reasons for early civilizations to interact with the ocean
Food, trade, discovering new lands
Photosynthesis
6CO2 + 6H2O ➡️ C6H12O6 + 6O2
Sponges feed by
Circulating water through their body. Most food is digested by amebocytes
Archaeocytes vs choanocytes
Choanocytes have flagella that move food
Archaeocytes circulate food and water
Scientist
Someone who uses the process of science to find answers about how and why things work in the world and universe
How much have humans explored the ocean?
5%
Marine science
The process of discovering facts and processes that explain the ocean, it’s life forms, and it’s interaction with other earth systems
What made true exploration of the ocean possible
Technology
Science
Body of knowledge and method to gain knowledge about the observable universe
Hypothesis
Educated guess that you can test
Theory
Scientific explanation eith observable evidence to support it
Phoenician contributions?
Established the first trade route throughout the Mediterranean and as far north as Great Britain
Significance of Polynesian seafaring?
Earliest regular, long distance, open ocean seafaring
Parallel is another name for
Latitude lines
The 0 degree parallel is called
Equator
Meridian is another name for
Longitude lines
2 technological innovations found in Chinese ships by the mid 1400s were
Central rudders, watertight compartments
Primary motivations for ocean explorations of the 15th century
Economics, politics, religion
Change that led to growth and expansion of marine science in the 20th century was primarily
Science and technology of the industrial revolution
Noted discovery made by the second H. M.S. Challenger was
Finding the deepest part of the ocean (Mariana’s trench)
AUVs
Untethered with own power source, piloted by onboard computer
ROV
Unmanned ship with propellers
Pelagic vs benthic
Sea vs depths of the sea
Photic zone
Lighted region of ocean where photosynthesis occurs
Plankton
Plants/animals that exist adrift in ocean currents
Nekton
Organisms that swim
Neuston
Float on surface ex: Portuguese man of war
Primary consumer
Organism that eats autotroph
Secondary consumer
Eats primary consumer
How much available energy transfers from each level of the trophic pyramid to the next
10%
Zooplankton
Feed on phytoplankton and smaller zooplankton
Holdfast
Attaches kelp to rock
Stipe
Connects to the blade
Air bladders
Keep leaf blades floating toward surface to receive sunlight
Term that means separate sexes
Dioecious
Two classes of cnidarian that spend their adult stage in polyp body form?
Hydrozoan and Anthozoan