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Mollusca

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Bivalves, gastropods (snails and oysters)

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Filter feeding

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They take in water and filter out the nutrients and release the leftover water

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Arthropoda

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Segmented body, jointed appendages (crabs, lobsters)

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Cnidaria

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Contains cnidocytes (jellyfish)

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Echinodermata

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Radial symmetry (starfish)

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Porifera

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Contains pores (sponges)

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Bryozoa

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Mossy grass (moss animals)

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Tunicate

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Sessile (fouling communities, sea squirts)

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Nemotoda

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Worms (flat worms)

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Cetacean

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Ancestors with land based animals (whales)

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Pinnipedia

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Some have ears (seals, walruses)

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Osteichthyes

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Bony fish (drum)

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Chondrichthyes

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Cartilaginous fish (sharks, rays)

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Reptilia

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Can lay eggs, not animal/bird (sea turtle)

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Aves

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Feathered, winged (birds)

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Sirenia

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Paddled tail (manatees)

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Fissipedia

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Land based (otters, bears)

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Agnatha

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No jaws (hagfish, lamprey)

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Organism

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One individual living thing

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Species

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Group of organisms that can produce fertile offspring

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Population

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Group of same species

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Community

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Group of different species

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Niche

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Now an organism fits with surroundings

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Who discovered the Aqua Lung?

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Jacques Coustau

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Phytoplankton

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Small, drifting plantlike organisms; primary

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Zooplankton

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Small, draft animals; secondary

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Detritus

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Sediment mixed with dead organic matter

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Bioluminescence

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Production and emission of light by a living organism; angler fish

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Depth zones from surface to bottom

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Epipelagic, Mesopelagic, Bathypelagic, Abyssalpelagic

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Benthic Zone

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Littoral, Sublittoral, Bathyl, Abyssal, and Hadal

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Pelagic Zone

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Epipelagic, Mesopelagic, Bathypelahic, Abyssalpelagic

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Three functions of an estuary

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Nursery, filter, and primary productivity source

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