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This fucking Marine Bio stuff that I need to know to be a big boi.

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Shallow submerged extensions of the continent.   Continental Shelf  
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Relating to, or occurring in the open ocean.   Pelagic  
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The location of pelagic animals in the upper 200m of the ocean.   Epipelagic  
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Relating to, or occurring at the bottom of the ocean.   Benthic  
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Organic: accumulation of marine stuff.   Biogenous  
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Erosion of land, volcanoes, dust.   Terrigenous  
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Dust from outer space, meteorite debris.   Cosmogenous  
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Precipitation of dissolved minerals, by bacteria.   Hydrogenous  
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small microscopic organisms, that drift and float in the ocean and freshwater.   Plankton  
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Aquatic animals that are able to swim freely,   Nekton  
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A fish that lives close to the floor of a sea or lake.   Demersal  
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Organisms that live on the ocean bottom.   Epifauna  
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Organisms that live the sediments.   Infauna  
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Organisms that are so small that they live amongst the grains of substrate.   Meiofauna  
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Bioturbation is the reworking of soils and sediments by animals or plants. Its effects include changing the texture of sediments.   Biotubators  
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is an organism that lives on the surface of another living organism.   Epibionts  
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Absorbing the products of digestion.   Absorptive Feeder  
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Engulf sediments and process food in the sediment.   Deposit Feeder  
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Kills and feeds on other animals.   Predator  
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Filters plankton and small things from the water.   Filter Feeder  
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Feeds on poop and dead stuff.   Detrivore  
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Quick locate dead animals and feed based on opportunity.   Scavenger  
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Eats other animals.   Carnivore  
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Eats other plants.   Herbivore  
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Filter food suspend in water column.   Suspension Feeder  
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An organism that decomposes organic material.   Decomposer  
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Holoplankton are organisms that are planktonic for their entire life cycle.   Holoplankton  
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Meroplankton consists of larval stages of organisms   Meroplankton  
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Heterotrophic plankton.   Zooplankton  
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Phytoplankton are the autotrophic components of the plankton community.   Phytoplankton  
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a name given to a layer in the ocean consisting of a variety of marine animals.   Deep Scattering Layer  
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  Patchiness  
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Marine snow is a shower of organic material falling from upper waters to the deep ocean.   Marine Snow  
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a series of shallow, slow, counter-rotating vortices at the ocean's surface aligned with the wind   Langmuir Cell  
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The amount of pore spaces for air, food, and water held between gains.   Porosity  
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Measure the age of the sediments.   Maturity  
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Measure of uniformity in grain size.   Sorting  
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an area of the ocean floor where hydrogen sulfide, methane and other hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage occurs.   Cold Seep  
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Holes in the mantle that spew out magma at the bottom of the ocean.   Hydro-thermal Vents  
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an air-filled bladder or sac found in certain animals and plants.   Air Bladder  
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Spilling out entrails to provide a meal for the predator while the host makes an escape.   Evisceration  
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hold (developing eggs) within the body.   Brooding  
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a form of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site.   Budding  
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Living debris in the water.   Seston  
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Nonliving debris in the water.   Tripton  
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he bacterial component of the plankton that drifts in the water column.   Bacterioplankton  
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bacteria plankton- thought to be most photosynthetic organisms in the early biomass   Viriplankton  
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Moving   Kinetic  
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Non moving   Akinetic  
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Plankton which break the surface of the water with their gas bladders or bubbles.   Neuston  
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Plankton which break the surface of the water with their gas bladders or bubbles.   Pleuston  
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Movement of predators in patchy fractal patterns.   Levy Walks  
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Name the classifications of plankton.   1.Taxonomic group 2.Motility 3.Size 4.Life History 5. Spacial Distribution.  
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Name the 3 ways to classify sediment.   1.Porosity 2. Maturity 3. Sorting  
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Example of Absorptive Feeder   polycheate worms  
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Example of Deposit Feeder   Crabs  
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Example of Predator   Nurse Shark  
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Example of Filter Feeder   Basking Shark  
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Example of Detrivtivore   sea cucumber  
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Example of scavenger   hagfish  
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Example of carnivore   Octopus  
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Example of herbivore   Mollusks  
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Example of suspension feeder   some cnidarians  
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Example of Decomposer   Sea Slugs  
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Example of Plankton   Phytoplankton  
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Example of Nekton   Tripletail  
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Example of Infauna   worms  
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Example of Epifauna   clams  
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Example of Meiofauna   Hydra  
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Example of Demersal   flounder  
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Example of Benthic    
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Example of Holoplankton   Copepod  
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Example of Meroplankton   Redfish  
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Example of Zooplankton   Copepod  
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Example of Phytoplankton   Cyanobacteria  
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Plankton Classified by SIZE   Macroplankton Microplankton Nanoplankton  
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Plankton Classified by Taxonomic Group   Seston, Tripton, Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, Bacterioplankton, Viriplankton.  
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Plankton Classified by Spacial Distribution   Neritic: Oceanic, Neauston, Pleuston.  
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Plankton Classified by Life Histroy   Holoplankton,Meroplankton.  
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Plankton Classified by Motility   Kinetic, Akinetic.  
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How are open ocean organisms adapted to the open ocean.   Safety in numbers, like like a single individual, be able to go long periods of time without eating.  
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Hydrothermal vent community   Opening in the mantle where magma pours our. chemical imput of hydrogen sulfide. Critters flock, chemostnrhstic bacteria, filter feeders epifauna  
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3 reproductive styles of benthic organisms   1. larval dispersal 2. Brooding 3. Asexual budding/ Fragmentation  
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3 Types of ways to classify sediments   1. Porosity 2. Maturity 3. Sorting  
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Open ocean abiotic and biotic factors   Biotic factors include plants, animals, fungi, algae, and bacteria. Abiotic factors include sunlight, temperature, moisture, wind or water currents, soil type,  
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