Memorization for Ch 7 & 8 Flashcards
phytoplankton
plant wanderers, single celled, use photosynthesis
zooplanton
heterotrophic plankton can be big and multicellular or small and single-celled
holoplankton
planktonic for their entire lifespan, many are microbial, and all photosynthetic plankton are holoplankton
meroplankton
organisms that are planktonic for a small portion of their life cycle
diatoms phylum
bacillariophyta
diatoms food source
photosynthesis
diatoms are open ocean producers in what waters
cold polar regions
blooms
pereiods of rapid reproduction in algae (diatoms get smaller during blooms)
dinoflagellates phylum
dinoflagellela
dinoflagellate food source
photosynthesis and food particles
dinoflagellates found in what temp
warm
zooxanthellae
round brown dinoflagellate that help coral reefs through fixing co2, releasing organic matter used by coral, and help in formation of the coral skeleton
protozoans
animal like protists not algae
what protozoan uses cilia for locomotion and feeding
ciliates
what protozoan has a shell called a test
formaniferans
what protozoan has a skeleton made of silica
radiolarian
psuedopodia
extensions of the cytoplasm to crawl or trap organisms like diatoms