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:filter feeders
:colar cells have a flagellum that moves water
:have spicules

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Porifera

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3 present day fauna represented in Ediacaran fauna

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  1. Jellyfish and Sea Pens
  2. Segmented worms
  3. Primitive members of phylum Arthropoda
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sponges

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Porifera

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:have stinging cells
:once tentacles are touch, a sac filled with poison releases harpoons
:solitary or colonial

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Cnidaria

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jellyfish and corals

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Cnidaria

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:soft body
:scavengers
:parsitic
:predatory

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worms

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:have muscular foot

:clam, squid, chambered nautilus, octopus

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Mollusca

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clams

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pelecypods

:bivalves

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snails

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gastropods

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squid, octopus, chambered nautilus

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cephalopods

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:5 fold symmetry
:spiny skin
:water vascular system allows them to move

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Echinoderms

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starfish and sea urchins

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Echinoderms

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:grow by molting

:crabs, lobsters, shrimp

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arthropods

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:filter feeders

:body plan that show ancestry of many animals

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tunicates

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:earliest ancestor of vertebrates

:dorsal nerve cord

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Amphioxus

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Benthic zones

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Supralittoral
Littoral
Sublittoral
Bathyal
Abyssa
Hadal
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16
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zones by depth

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Epipelagic
Mesopelagic
Bathypelagic
Abyssopelagic

17
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2 ways submarine canyons form

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  1. turbidites
    • -> underwater landslides
  2. rise in sea level
    • ->rivers running across continental shelf at times of lower sea level which are flooded as sea level rises
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submergent coastlines features

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\:barrier islands
\:bay mouth bar
\:lagoons
\:tombolos
\:estuaries
\:long gently sloping beaches
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emergent coastlines features

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***southern california
\:cliffs
\:sea stacks
\:sea caves
\:headlands
\:blow holes
\:narrow steep beaches
20
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:swimmers

:can swim against a 1 knot current

21
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live in neritic zone

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plankton

nekton

22
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:dont drink water
:water gained by osmosis
:salt absorbed by gills
:large volume of urine

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fresh water fish

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:drink water
:water lost by osmosis
:salt excreted by gills
:small volume of urine

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salt water fish

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:live on surface of sea floor

:starfish

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:live in sea floor

:worms

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vagrant

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attached to sea floor

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marine resources

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  1. physical resources
  2. marine energy
  3. biological resources
  4. nonextractive resources
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area of major fish production occurs

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:coastal waters

:areas of upwelling

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more fish located in

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area over continental shelves –> nutrient rich

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max amount of species that can be harvested w/o affecting future yields

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max sustainable yeild

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fish stocks over harvested

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over fished

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depletion of a species to the point it is no longer profitable to harvest

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commercial extinction

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animals unintentionally killed when other species are being harvested

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mariculture (fish farming) is economically viable if

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:marketable
:inexpensive to grow
:at marketable size w/in 1-2yrs

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international agreement that governs the use of the world ocean

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law of the sea

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EEZ

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exclusive economic zone

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3 main types of input pollution

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:direct discharge –> dumping
:surface run off
:atmospheric pollution

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oceanic pollution examples

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:deep sea mining
:acidification
:plastic debris
:noise pollution

40
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:increase in chemical nutrients in an ecosystem

:rivers that empty into oceans

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Eutrophication

41
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caused the pacific garbage patch

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Eckman transport

oceanography (9 decks)

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