salt marshes and hydrothermal/cold seeps

Question 1

what is primary productivity

Answer 1

plants changing light to energy

Question 2

swamps/salt marshes have high primary production

Answer 2

600/2000 gC/m^2/y

Question 3

why are high grasses good for animals

Answer 3

hide in them

Question 4

what primary producers are found in salt marshes

Answer 4

macro algae diatoms phytoplankton

Question 5

name 5 animals found in salt marshes

Answer 5

oyster catchers
natterjack toad
sea bass
shellfish/crabs
brent goose

Question 6

name 5 plants found in salt marshes

Answer 6

sea lavendar
eel grass
blue green algae
reeds and rushes
oak/alder trees

Question 7

how does the ecosystem work near a cold seep

Answer 7

microbes including bacteria form thick mat of nutrition as they convert methane into energy
mussels are nourished chemosynthesis bacteria
sea cucumbers eat of the bacterial mats

Question 8

organisms near hydrothermal vents work

Answer 8

clams depend on symbiotic bacteria
palm worms survive in temps 55 plus close proximity to vents

Question 9

what is a hydrothermal vent

Answer 9

Hydrothermal vents are fissures on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges

Question 10

what is a cold seep

Answer 10

A cold seep is an area of the ocean floor where hydrogen sulfide, methane and other hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage