Oceanography quiz 7
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| show | light can penetrate all the way to the seafloor on the shelves
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| Why are most coral reefs found in shallow water? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is an evolutionary adaptation made by most marine mammals to live in the marine environment? | show 🗑
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| show | suspension feeding
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| In the coral disease known as “coral bleaching”, what causes the bleaching? | show 🗑
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| show | they have a keen sense of smell
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| show | large bodies
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| show | Rocky coasts have more varied substrates and hence more ecological niches or
organisms to develop special adaptations
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| Dinoflagellates sometimes reproduce in such large numbers that they color surface waters red and these are called “red tides” (although they have nothing to do with tides). Not all blooms of toxic dinoflagellates discolor the water, so oceanographers pref | show 🗑
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| Many plankton are tiny, single-cell organisms. Why is this small size advantageous for them? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following groups does the “Portuguese man-o-war” (Physalia) belong to? | show 🗑
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| show | infauna live within the sediments whereas epifauna live on the surface of the sea bottom
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| show | phytoplankton photosynthesize and zooplankton do not
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| show | they lay a lot of eggs and do not care for them
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| As a group, deep-water nekton are known to exhibit all of the following adaptations EXCEPT ______. | show 🗑
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| What are chemosynthetic organisms? | show 🗑
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| show | krill
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| Why does the distribution of benthic biomass mimic the distribution of surface water biomass? | show 🗑
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| show | maximum sustainable yield
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| show | this type of fin gives them lift to keep them from sinking
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| Of the following groups, which one is highly skilled in the ability to use echolocation for navigation and communication? | show 🗑
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| show | food is scarce in deep water, favoring a less energetic lifestyle
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| show | seals and sea lions (pinnipeds)
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| show | Marine mammals have gills
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| show | Copepods and microscopic shrimp-like animals that are a vital link a many marine food webs
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| A nektonic organism must ______. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following conditions is a requirement of coral reefs? | show 🗑
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| show | burrowing
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| Which of the following whales do not have baleen? | show 🗑
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| Unlike humans, whales can minimize the debilitating effect of deep dives because they ______. | show 🗑
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| Corals are colonial animals that secrete a carbonate skeleton. Individual corals are called what? | show 🗑
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| show | near the bottom of the deep ocean
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| Chemosynthetic organisms occur in the Gulf of Mexico at what locations? | show 🗑
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| Of the following, which one is believed to be the MOST important function of schooling? | show 🗑
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| show | those with teeth and those with baleen
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| show | they filter seawater and remove pollutants
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| What is a bycatch? | show 🗑
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| If someone brought you an organism washed up on the beach along a rocky shore coastline and it consisted of soft body parts, what would be your conclusion about the zone in which it lives? | show 🗑
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| Of the following fin types, which one is most commonly used to propel a fish forward? | show 🗑
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| show | it increases the power output of muscles
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| Which of the following statements about symbiosis is FALSE? | show 🗑
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| show | because of a strong thermocline nutrients for growth become depleted in surface waters and zooplankton eat the phytoplankton
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| show | big air-filled bones
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