Oceans Chap 8-11

Question 1

Dry, gently sloping region at the foot of dune or cliff.

Answer 1

Berm

Question 2

wet, sloped surface; from berm to water’s edge (high and low tide) i.e surface zone

Answer 2

Beach face

Question 3

Offshore sand bar that parallels coast; causes waves to break.

Answer 3

Longshore bar

Question 4

separates longshore bar from beach.

Answer 4

Longshore trough

Question 5

Waves approach the beach at an angle and then the nearer-shore part of the wave crest slows relative to office part of crest (orbits flatten) which results in bending of waves as they approach shore.

Answer 5

Wave refraction

Question 6

What region are mangrove swamps located in?

Answer 6

Tropical regions

Question 7

What kind of vegetation lives in mangrove swamps?

Answer 7

salt tolerant trees

Question 8

Increases the organism’s survival and reproductive success

Answer 8

favorable

Question 9

Group of interbreeding individuals that are similar, can exchange genes

Answer 9

species

Question 10

Group of individuals of a species in an area.

Answer 10

Population

Question 11

The continuous adaptation of successive generations of a species to its environment

Answer 11

Evolution

Question 12

Environmental conditions lead to similar adaptations in very different species.

Answer 12

Convergent evolution

Question 13

Marine organisms that have the same concentration of salinity as seawater.

Answer 13

Isotonic

Question 14

Where most productivity occurs

Answer 14

euphotic zone

Question 15

Not enough light for photosynthesis to occur.

Answer 15

disphotic zone

Question 16

Where organisms are attached or move on the surface.

Answer 16

epifauna

Question 17

Organisms buried.

Answer 17

infauna

Question 18

What is one of the most important aspects of benthic community?

Answer 18

habitat zonation

Question 19

What is brown algae a source of?

Answer 19

Alginates

Question 20

What is red algae a source of?

Answer 20

Carrageenans

Question 21

Dinoflagellate algae that live within reef-building corals’ tissues. Base of coral reef food web; photosynthetic algae.

Answer 21

zooxanthellae

Question 22

Organism that swim or float

Answer 22

Pelagic organism

Question 23

Organisms that spend their whole lives as plankton.

Answer 23

holoplankton

Question 24

Organisms that spend part of their life as plankton, rest as benthic or nektonic.

Answer 24

Meroplankton

Question 25

Amount a species can be harvested and the population does not decline over time.

Answer 25

Sustainability