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| a hypothesis consistently supported by observation and experiments is a ___ | show 🗑
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| estero bay is a goos example of what kind of estuary ___ | show 🗑
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| in ecology, the position of an organism occupies in a food chain is called ___ | show 🗑
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| what estuary is not a common low latitude zone? | show 🗑
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| show | habitat
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| show | red mangroves
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| ____ are the gas-exchange organs of the black mangroves | show 🗑
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| show | black mangrove
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| which seagrass is found in the deepest zone of estero bay | show 🗑
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| show | seagrass beds
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| show | oyster reefs
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| show | oysters
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| the ospreys diet consists almost only of ___ | show 🗑
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| show | amphipods
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| show | provide habitats, filter water, serve as food
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| show | west indian manatee
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| show | decreasing
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| show | food web
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| show | the same
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| show | pressure
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| too much or too little of a single abiotic factor can negatively affect the function and distribution of an organism is called __ | show 🗑
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| show | convergent evolution
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| show | kingdom
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| a feature of an erosional coast is ___ | show 🗑
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| in bar built estuaries, the islands are separated from the mainland by shallow bodies of water called ___ | show 🗑
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| sea cliffs, sea caves, blowholes, and arches are related to ___ | show 🗑
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| a problem facing many beaches in the US east and west coast is __ | show 🗑
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| organisms such as diatoms of copepods that spend their entire life cycle in plankton are ___ | show 🗑
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| the rocky shores of main are called ___ | show 🗑
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| the origin of manatees are likely from ___ | show 🗑
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| show | primary consumer
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| chesapeake bay is a good example of ___ | show 🗑
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| show | tannic acid
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| estero bay estuary formed approximately ___ years ago | show 🗑
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| show | 100,000
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| in estero bay the salinity is generally low in ___ | show 🗑
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| twenty miles is approximately ___ kilometers | show 🗑
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| show | mode
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| Rogue waves are best described as____ | show 🗑
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| show | 1/7
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| show | True amphidromic systems do not develop because of the shape of the bay
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| show | 38
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| Tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere spin: | show 🗑
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| What factors affect wind wave development | show 🗑
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| show | 3
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| Extratropical cyclones typically form | show 🗑
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| show | Diffraction
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| show | Capillary waves
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| show | a tropical cyclone is a strom system characterized by a large high-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds (must have more than 40 mph) and heavy rain
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| show | capillary waves
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| The tidal pattern characteristic of Fort Myers is | show 🗑
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| We can find palm trees in Southwest England because | show 🗑
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| show | Trade winds
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| show | one air mass may ride up and over the other and form a front
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| Where is the windiest and waviest ocean? | show 🗑
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| If the first part of a tsunami to reach land is a trough called a ____ the water along the shoreline recedes dramatically, exposing normally submerged areas: | show 🗑
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| show | Spring tides
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| show | Coriolis Force
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| show | In circular orbits
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| In the open sea (offshore) a tsunami can reach an average wave height of about | show 🗑
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| show | Wave Reflection
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| About what general latitude is Fort Myers | show 🗑
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| Major winds in Ferrel cells are called | show 🗑
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| true or false; accuracy means how close the measured values are to each other | show 🗑
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| true or false; estuaries are quite important because they maintain great biodiversity | show 🗑
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| true or false; manatees teeth are renwed by a new tooth when the old one wears out | show 🗑
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| true or false; dolphins can use sonal to find fish hiding in the sand | show 🗑
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| T or F; overwashed mangrove forests form a zonation with mangroves and other terrestrial plants | show 🗑
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| T or F; longshore current is an ocean current that flows perpendicular to the shore | show 🗑
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| Tsunami generated by the vertical movement of Earth along faults are seismic waves. What cannot generate a tsunami? | show 🗑
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| Wind blows from? | show 🗑
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| What is not necessary for tropical cyclone formation | show 🗑
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| show | abundance of predators
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| up to 90% of the nutritional needs of stoney corals is supplied by symbiotic ___ | show 🗑
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| show | reef crest
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| what coral reefs have lagoon ? | show 🗑
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| show | coral bleaching
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| the gulf stream is a ____ current | show 🗑
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| show | trade winds
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| show | carry heat
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| show | antarctic bottom water
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| what substances has the highest heat capacity ? | show 🗑
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| Sea breezes occur after | show 🗑
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| A wave of water moving up a river, intiated by tidal action and normal resonance within a river estuary, is called a ___ | show 🗑
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| New Orleans received huge damage from hurricane Katrina because of all of the following reasons EXCEPT | show 🗑
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| Which is FALSE explanation about tides | show 🗑
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| show | Plunging Waves
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| When waves approach the shore, wave length___ | show 🗑
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| show | Microtidal
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| show | Wave breaks whent the ratio of the wave height to water depth is 3:4
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| show | all of the above (setting of tsunami warning systems, tsunami education, researching a tsunami)
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| The distance between two adjacent crests is called | show 🗑
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| Which is a false explanation about the moon and tide? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding solar heating of the Earth? | show 🗑
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| show | Chilly and Dry
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| Warm air is ____ than cold air | show 🗑
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| show | an amphidromic point
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| show | Nor' Easters
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| When the sun and mooon are in a line with the Earth, the____ will occur | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| At the first and third quarter moons, the sun, Earth and moon form a right angle, creating spring tides (T/F) | show 🗑
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| Flood current is the flow of water away from the land with the approaching low tide (T/F) | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| Slack water is a time of no current (T/F) | show 🗑
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| show | absorbs
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| show | peru current
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| the average depth of the worlds oceans is about ___ | show 🗑
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| show | clockwise
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| the largest of the western boundary currents is the ___ | show 🗑
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| a system of cour currents completing a flow circuit around the periphery of an ocean basic is collectively called ___ | show 🗑
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| the main force driving thermohaline circulation is ___ | show 🗑
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| show | sound in the ocean
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| show | 90 degrees
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| show | tides
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| a water molecule is electrically bonded to nearby water molecules by ___ | show 🗑
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| the property of water that accounts for the ability of liquid water to absorb heat and change only very little in temperature is called ___ | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | by product of photosynthesis and diffusion from the surface
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| dead zones are mainly formed in ___ | show 🗑
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| the wavelengths of light that penetrate deepest into the nearshore water are ___ | show 🗑
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| show | the ratio of major salts in samples of seawater from various places is constant
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| sound is horizontally concentrated rather than diffused as it moves through the water, acoustical energy losses are relatively small, sound waves travel great horizonatal distances, and sound velocity is a minimum are parts of ___ | show 🗑
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| what percent of fish are marine fish | show 🗑
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| when a fish hides from predators, search for bait, and search water currents they use their ___ | show 🗑
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| show | truncated
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| skates and rays have greatly enlarged ___ fins | show 🗑
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| the deep-bodied fish keep ___ | show 🗑
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| catfish are what kind of fish | show 🗑
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| the movement of water across a cell membrane from and area of high concentration to low concentration is ___ | show 🗑
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| show | heterocercal
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| butterfly fish are what kind of fish | show 🗑
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| what kind of information can be delivered from otoliths? | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| in osmoregulation, marine fish need to drink seawater because they are in ___ environments | show 🗑
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| show | dinoflagellate
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| sharks and rays are ___ | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| T or F; the surface water temperature monitoring in the central atlantic is important for the prediction of el nino | show 🗑
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| show | Density
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| show | about 4.3 Billion years ago
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| show | middle core
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| The behavior of ___ generated by earthquakes give scientists some of the best evidence about the structure of the Earth | show 🗑
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| Earlier than 200 million years ago, the continents were joined into one supercontinent called | show 🗑
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| show | Isostasy
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| One cubic meter of which would weigh more? Seawater, Granite Rock, or Basaltic Rock | show 🗑
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| What did Alfred Wagner use to explain his continental drift theory? | show 🗑
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| The oceanic crust is primarily ___, a heavy, dark colored rock | show 🗑
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| show | Sea floor spreading (ocean ridges)
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| All of the following are true concerning subduction zones EXCEPT | show 🗑
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| How can a satellite sense teh contours of the ocean bottom from space? | show 🗑
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| show | The plate convergence of oceanic crust toward oceanic crust
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| show | Continental Shelf
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| All of the following components are generally found near the subduction zone EXCEPT: Narrow Continental Shelf, Active Margin, Volcanic Mountain Ranges, & Spreading Zone | show 🗑
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| show | Underwater avalanche of sediments
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| show | Limited developments of continental shelves are seen in the Atlantic Coast
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| The continental margin does not contain | show 🗑
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| show | china
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| what is the top ranked fish by quantity in the US | show 🗑
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| the world commercial fish catch is ___ now | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| the US is the ___ country in an aquaculture harvest record in the world | show 🗑
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| show | increasing
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| show | false
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| orange roughy lives in ___ | show 🗑
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| T or F; orange roughy can live longer than 100 years | show 🗑
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| how can we reduce bycatch? | show 🗑
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| usually marine fish having little of no market value and used for livestock/fish feed in the different countries are ___ | show 🗑
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| show | increasing
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| show | anchovies
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| removing of fish from the population faster than they can be replaced is called ___ | show 🗑
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| show | catfish
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| a mariculture technique uses salmons natural homing instinct is called ___ | show 🗑
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| show | oysters
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| the right whale is included in ___ | show 🗑
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| show | baleen
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| show | carnivora
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| porpoises are belonging to the order ___ | show 🗑
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| dugongs are belonging to the order__ | show 🗑
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| T or F; blue whales occasionally eat phytoplankton such as diatoms and dinoflagellates | show 🗑
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| marine mammals are covered with a thick layer of fat called ___ | show 🗑
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| show | endothermic
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| show | heat
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| T or F; whale fetuses have hour limbs during the development | show 🗑
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| show | toothed whales
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| sea lions are members of ___ | show 🗑
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| show | northern elephant seal
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| show | melon
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| show | 25%
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| show | coal
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| most of the oil and natural gas are found in ___ | show 🗑
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| T or F; natural gas is a reusable source | show 🗑
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| the dominant component of natural gas is ___ | show 🗑
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| T or F; natural gas presents as a form of methane hydrate in ocean sediments | show 🗑
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| what is the problem of tidal power station construction in coastal zones ? | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| pelamis is the worlds first commercial ___ energy generator | show 🗑
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| what is the largest course of marine pollution ? | show 🗑
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| various synthetic organic chemicals run into the ocean are incorporated into marine organisms, this is called ___ | show 🗑
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| show | expansion of human population
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| Which word does NOT relate to the mid Atlantic Ridge | show 🗑
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| show | Clay
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| Carbonate sediments are rare in very deep sea environments because | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is the most abundant sediment in the ocean | show 🗑
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| show | are converted into solid rock by heat and pressure
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| Radiolarians and diatoms are both examples of | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding sediments | show 🗑
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| show | Air borne dusts are classified as cosmogenous sediments
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| show | Siliceous ooze
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| show | Fecal pellets
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| show | Cocoliths
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| Sources of terrigenous sediments includes all of the following EXCEPT | show 🗑
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| show | Hydrogen Sulfide
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| The average ocean carbon productivity is ___ fC/m2/year | show 🗑
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| show | Approxamately 30% of energy is generally transferred to the next trophic level
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| show | They have blue blood containing hemocyanin
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| show | satellite images
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| show | East Coast
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| The total biomass __ with increasing the trophic level | show 🗑
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| show | high
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| show | radioactive dating
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| In the pelagic province, the water depth between 1,000 and 2,000 meters is called | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| Cosmogenous sediments are often found in hydrothermal vents (T/F) | show 🗑
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| The average ocean depth is about 6,000 meters (T/F) | show 🗑
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| Red Sea is a good example of spreading zone (T/F) | show 🗑
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| Hawi'ian islands are moving toward the Northwest (T/F) | show 🗑
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| The continental shelves have thicker average sediment layers than the continental rises (T/F) | show 🗑
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| Annual averaged ocean productivity is larger than that of terrestial productivity (T/F) | show 🗑
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| Chemosynthesis is a type of primary production like photosynthesis (T/F) | show 🗑
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| show | True
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