Marine Biology

Question 1

Drifters

Answer 1

Plankton

Question 2

Swimmers

Answer 2

Nekton

Question 3

Bethos

Answer 3

Bottom Dwellers

Question 4

Autotrophs; undergo photosynthesis (type of plankton)

Answer 4

Phytoplankton

Question 5

Heterotrophs; includes drifting marine animals (type of plankton)

Answer 5

Zooplankton

Question 6

Free-living bacteria; very abundant and widely distributed (type of plankton)

Answer 6

Bacterioplankton

Question 7

A small type of bacterioplankton

Answer 7

Picoplankton

Question 8

Smaller than Bacterioplankton; are composed of bacteriophages and algal viruses (type of plankton)

Answer 8

Virioplankton

Question 9

Organisms that spend their whole lives as plankton

Answer 9

Holoplankton

Question 10

Organisms that spend their larval stages as plankton

Answer 10

Meroplankton

Question 11

Live on surface of sea floor, either attached to rocks or moving along the bottom.

Answer 11

Epifauna

Question 12

Live buried in the sand, or within in the mud that exists on the sea bottom

Answer 12

Infauna

Question 13

live on bottom but can also swim

Answer 13

Nektonbenthos

Question 14

Coldness Stillness and Darkness are factors of what

Answer 14

The deep sea bottom

Question 15

Large floating animal and algae (type of plankton)

Answer 15

Macorplankton