Exam 1

Question 0

Which plate is off the west coast?

Answer 0

Pacific plate

Question 1

Primary production

Answer 1

When autotrophs produce more organic matter than they use in respiration

Question 2

Which plate is off the west coast of South America?

Answer 2

Nazca plate

Question 3

What does Pangaea mean in what language?

Answer 3

All earth

Greek

Question 4

What kind of bond makes up a water molecule?

Answer 4

Covalent and polar

Question 5

What kind of bods are formed between water molecules?

Answer 5

H-bonds

Question 6

Average salt conc. of world ocean?

Answer 6

35%.

Question 7

Father of modern taxonomy?

Answer 7

Linnaeus

Question 8

Cause of currents?

Answer 8

Wind!

Question 9

Cause of tides?

Answer 9

Moon, sun, earth; gravity

Question 10

Which symbiotic relationship results in basically no benefit or harm to the host?

Answer 10

Commensalism.

Question 11

What are the four large ocean basins?

Answer 11

Indian, pacific, arctic, Atlantic

Question 12

Arctic Ocean

Answer 12

Shallow, low salinity, low species diversity, polar bears& walrus

Question 13

Where is are the George’s & Grand Banks as well as the North Sea?

Answer 13

Atlantic Ocean

Question 14

Top predators of the Antarctic peninsula

Answer 14

Seabirds and seal

Question 15

Crab eater seal eats lots of..

Answer 15

KRILL

Question 16

What is earths core mostly made up of?

Answer 16

Iron

Question 17

Creates earths magnetic field?

Answer 17

Swirling motion of liquid outer core

Question 18

Polarity reverses how often?

Answer 18

Every 300,000 years

Question 19

Mantle sold?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

Mantle movement?

Answer 20

It flows.

Question 21

What does the mantle consist of?

Answer 21

Iron and magnesium silicates

Question 22

What is continental crust made of?

Oceanic crust?

Answer 22

Granite.

Basalt.

Question 23

How does the density of oceanic crust compare to cont. crust?

Answer 23

Oceanic is higher in density.

Question 24

How does the coloring and thickness compare from cont. crust to oceanic?

Answer 24

Oceanic is darker and thinner

Question 25

How does the age of cont. crust compare to oceanic?

Answer 25

Oceanic is younger.

Question 26

How much do plates move per year?

Answer 26

2-12 cm (1-5in)

Question 27

East pacific...

Answer 27

Rise

Question 28

Mid-Atlantic...

Answer 28

Ridge

Question 29

Divergent boundary

Answer 29

Plates moving away from each other push up in between.

Question 30

Convergent boundary

Answer 30

Plates moving toward each other.

Question 31

Trenches and volcanoes are associate with which type of boundary?

Answer 31

Convergent

Question 32

Transform boundaries

Answer 32

Plates moving in opposite directions. Not toward or away but... Up and down.

Question 33

What is the biologically richest part of the ocean?

Answer 33

Continental shelf

Question 34

How much if the oceans surface area is continental shelf?

Answer 34

8%

Question 35

Active margins

Answer 35

Trenches Narrow shelves Rocky shorelines

Question 36

Passive margins

Answer 36

Flat coastal plains Wide shelves Trailing edge of continent

Question 37

Table topped seamount

Answer 37

Flat topped seamount.

Question 38

Are Copepoda non-P/S or P/S?

Answer 38

Non

Question 39

Are diatoms and dinoflagellates P/S or nahhh?

Answer 39

P/S

Question 40

What's in trophic level one?

Answer 40

Phytoplankton

Question 41

Who's in trophic level 2?

Answer 41

Herbivores (herbivorous zooplankton)

Question 42

In level 3?

Answer 42

Small carnivores (small fish)

Question 43

Level4?

Answer 43

Large carnivores

Question 44

Level 5?

Answer 44

Tuna, sharks, swordfish