Spring Semester Exam Flashcards
A flat strip of land, raised bank, or terrace bordering a river or canal
Been
A sandbank or shoal at the mouth of a harbor, bay, or estuary.
Bar
A tide just after a new or full moon (greatest difference between high and low water)
Spring tide
The part of a terrestrial tide due to the mutual attraction between earth and moon
Lunar tide
A pebbly or sandy shore, especially by the ocean between high and low water marks
Beach
The concentration of dissolved salts in the water
Salinity
The part of the land near the sea, the edge of the land
Coast
A group of waves of equal or similar in wavelengths traveling in the same direction
Wave trains
Wind generated waves
Wind waves
The (relative) number of times something occurred in a given sample
Frequency
The alternate rising and falling of the sea (twice each day)
Tides
A breaking wave whose crest curls over and collapses suddenly
Plunging breakers
An area of low-lying land that is flooded in wet season or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times
Marshes
An area of low lying, uncultivated ground where water collects
Swamps
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
Ecosystem
The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream
Estuaries
The arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities
Classification
The branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms
Taxonomy
The system of nomenclature in which two terms are used to denote a species of living organism, the first one indicating the genus and the second the specific epithet
Binomial nomenclature
A key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
Dichotomous key
Plankton consisting of microscopic plants
Phytoplankton
Plankton consisting of small animals and the immature stage of larger animals
Zooplankton
Characteristics of crustaceans
- Hard exoskeleton
- two compound eyes
- two antennae
- three mouth parts
- a pair of green glands
A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane
Osmosis
Two solutions having the same osmotic pressure across a semi permeable membrane
Isotonic solution
Any solution that has a lower osmotic pressure than another solution.
Hypotonic solution
A solution with a higher concentration of solute than some other specific solution
Hypertonic solution
An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide
Autotrophs
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize food from carbon dioxide and water.
Photosynthesis
The rate at which metabolic occurred in a living organism
Metabolic rate
Dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat
Endothermic
An animal that is dependent on external sources of body heat
Ectothermic
A measure of hydrogen ion concentration; a measure of acidity or alkalinity of a solution
pH
A fish of a warm seas that normally lies buried in the sand with only its eyes, which are on top of the head, protruding
Stargazer
A mainly nocturnal elk-like predatory fish of warm seas that typically hides in crevices with just the head protruding
Moray eel
An animal of large phylum chordata, comprising the vertebrae together with the sea squirts and lancelets
Chordata
A gas-filled sac present in the body of many bony fishes,, used to maintain and control buoyancy
Swim-bladder
A fish a warm seas that leap out of the water and used its winglike pectoral fins to glide over the surface for some distance
Flying fish
Fish that live on or near the sea-bottom, irrespective of the depth of the sea
Benthic fish
A light- producing organ in certain fishes and other animals
Photophores
How many days are in a lunar month?
29.5
Wind must be _____ km/hr to be considered a hurricane
105
What do all living things depend on for survival ?
Sun/energy
What is the only natural lake in Texas ?
Lake caddy
Difference between Osteichthyes and Chondrichthyes ?
Chondrichthyes are cartilage fish (cartilaginous)
&
Osteichthyes are body fish
