Final Notes Flashcards

1
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Describe Petrels beak

A

Short, heavy and hooked for tearing

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Describe a Razorbill beak

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Streamlined for diving

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3
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Tern beak

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Straight and narrow, for eating things whole

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4
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Skimmers beak

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Lower beak longer than upper. Allows eating while flying

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5
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What are pinnipeds?

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Seals, sea lions and walrus or animals that flippers but have to rest on land

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6
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What are cetaceans?

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Whales dolphins and porpoises. They spend their whole life in the water

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7
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Abiotic vs biotic

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Abiotic is the non living part of the environment. (salinity, bottom type)

Biotic is the living part of the environment

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8
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Commensal relationship

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Is when one species benefits without effecting the other one at all

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Parasitic relationship

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Is when one species benefits at the expense of the other

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10
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Mutual relationship

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Is when both species benefit

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11
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Benthic organisms

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Live on or buried on the bottom

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12
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Pelagic organisms

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Live up in the water column away from the bottom

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13
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Plankton organisms

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Live at or close to the surface

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14
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Water loss

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The problem of marine organisms drying out. To protect for this intertidal organisms must hide or clam up

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15
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Name the types of estuarine

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Open water 
Mudflats 
Salt marshes 
Mangrove forests 
Oyster reefs
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16
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Characteristics of soft bottom community’s

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Sandy and muddy substrates

Animals in on top and buried in the sand

17
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Fringing reefs

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The most common reef

Can form wherever there is a hard bottom

18
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Barrier reefs

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Father from shore than fringing reefs

They create lagoons

19
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Atolls

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A ring of reef surrounding a central lagoon

20
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The phytoplankton

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Single celled or simple chains of cells

Perform most of the photosynthesis in the sea

21
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Adaptations of Midwater animals

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Large mouth and big teeth

Most do not have swim bladder to conserve energy. Instead they soft bones and spines to make them buoyant

22
Q

Draws back of aquaculture

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It’s Expensive so some fish are not farmed because it’s not profitable

It’s also can create pollution

Fish don’t grow as big

23
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Human impact on coral

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Trawing nets damage reefs

High levels of sediment