marine life

Question 1

Drifters

Answer 1

Plankton

Question 2

Swimmers

Answer 2

Nekton

Question 3

Bottom dwellers

Answer 3

Benthos

Question 4

What are autotrophs

Answer 4

Phytoplankton

Question 5

What is free living bacteria?

Answer 5

Bacteriaplankton

Question 6

What are heterotrophs

Answer 6

Zooplankton

Question 7

Organisms that spend their entire lives as plankton

Answer 7

Horoplankton

Question 8

Smaller than bacterioplankton

Answer 8

Virioplankton

Question 9

many organisms that spend their entire lives as nekton or benthos but spend their juvenile and/or larval stages as plankton (squid)

Answer 9

Meroplankton

Question 10

large floating animals/algae, such as jellies and Sargassum

Answer 10

Macroplankton

Question 11

How many marine and terrestrial species inhabit Earth

Answer 11

1.8 million - 87% terrestrial, 13% marine

Question 12

Why don’t we know more about the ocean?

Answer 12

Because of its size and its inaccessibility

Question 13

How many species are discovered each year?

Answer 13

2000

Question 14

2 major divisions in the ocean

Answer 14

Pelagic and Benthic

Question 15

The four zones of the ocean

Answer 15

Epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, and abyssopelagic zone