Oceanography Review
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| The tide-generating force is inversely proportional to the cube of the distance. | show 🗑
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| The plane through the ellipse that marks the revolution of Earth around the Sun is called the ecliptic. | show 🗑
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| A lunar day is shorter than a solar day. | show 🗑
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| The Sun and the Moon have relatively equal tide-generating forces on Earth. | show 🗑
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| The barycenter follows a smooth orbit around the Sun. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| A spring tide occurs once per month. | show 🗑
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| A semidiurnal tide is common along the Pacific coast of the United States. | show 🗑
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| The maximum tidal range in the Bay of Fundy is about 17 meters. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| The force that pulls an orbiting body toward the center of that orbit is called: | show 🗑
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| show | barycenter
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| The tide-generating force varies: | show 🗑
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| The angular distance of the orbital plane of the Sun or Moon above or below Earth's equatorial plane is called the: | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| A neap tide has a very large tidal range | show 🗑
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| Neap tides occur when the moon is at | show 🗑
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| show | aphelion
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| show | high tide
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| show | Tidal Range
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| The center of an open ocean tidal system is called a(n): | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| An area that experiences diurnal tides will have one low tide and two high tides daily. | show 🗑
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| The most common tidal pattern around the world are: | show 🗑
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| show | Atlantic coast
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| In the United States one can find mixed tides along the: | show 🗑
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| show | Very large tidal range
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| Water flowing out of an enclosed basin due to the tides is called: | show 🗑
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| show | about half way between high and low tides.
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| Tidal current can produce rotary currents called | show 🗑
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| Both ebb tides and flood tides are tidal currents | show 🗑
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| show | halocline
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| show | thermocline
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| show | mangrove swamp
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| show | salt marsh
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| equal salinity | show 🗑
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| show | isothermal
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| show | fjord
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| show | bar-built estuary
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| a very deep river mouth with a large volume of freshwater flow beneath which a wedge of salt water from the ocean invades | show 🗑
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| shallow estuaries in which freshwater and salt salt water are totally mixed from the top to the bottom of the water column | show 🗑
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| The Coriolis effect is evident in the surface circulation of Chesapeake Bay. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| Salt marshes serve as nurseries for over half of the commercially important fish in the southeastern United States. | show 🗑
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| Mangrove swamps are protective buffer areas in temperate latitude coastal ecosystems. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| Primary sewage treatment involves the removal of inorganic nutrients from the liquid effluent. | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| he decreased calcium content in the shells of piscivorous birds was a result bioaccumulation of pesticides in the food chain. | show 🗑
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| Minamata disease was caused by mercury contamination. | show 🗑
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| The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) extends into | show 🗑
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| Prevailing dry offshore winds produce coastal waters that have | show 🗑
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| An example of a coastal plain estuary is the: | show 🗑
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| An example of a bar-built estuary is laguna madre | show 🗑
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| Lagoons that form behind barrier islands are examples of | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| show | fjord
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| An estuary produced by faulting or folding of rocks that creates a dropped-down section into which a river flows is called a | show 🗑
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| show | salt wedge estuary
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| show | vertically mixed estuary
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| The Columbia River estuary received most of its ecological damage from which source? | show 🗑
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| show | an increase in nutrients resulting in more frequent kills of bottom-dwelling animals.
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| show | high levels of organic nutrients in the tidal zone and anoxic sediments
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| The percentage of the original area of wetlands currently left in the United States is approximately | show 🗑
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| show | mediterranean circulation
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| show | false
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| The toxicity of marine pollutants is estimated by | show 🗑
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| The two most significant sources of oil pollution in the marine environment are | show 🗑
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| The most biologically devastating oil spills in the marine environment are a result of: | show 🗑
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| Natural processes which help to remove oil spills from the ocean include all of the following except: a. evaporation from the ocean surface. b. digestion of significant amount by fish populations. c. dispersal due to wave and wind action. d. sinking due | show 🗑
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| show | hydrocarbons
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| Plastics cause significant biological damage in oceans when: | show 🗑
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| Secondary sewage treatment is distinguished form primary sewage treatment by the | show 🗑
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| show | a well-developed pycnocline should isolate the sewage
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| Which of the following organisms are expected to show the highest concentrations of DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons in its tissues? | show 🗑
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| show | ingestion of methyl mercury-contaminated fish and shellfish
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| marine organism that floats for its entire life | show 🗑
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| marine organism that floats for a portion of its life | show 🗑
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| show | epifauna
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| show | infauna
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| show | nekton infauna
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| show | true
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| Streamlining in fish means that the minimum amount of energy is expended to swim. | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| show | false
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| The neritic province is associated with the continental shelf. | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| The euphotic zone is contained entirely in the epipelagic zone. | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| what is the correct hierarchical ordering of taxonomic levels in terms of increasing specificity? | show 🗑
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| show | D
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| show | sea star
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| show | Meroplankton
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| show | true
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| When compared to their warmer water counterparts, cold water plankton often: | show 🗑
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| show | picoplankton
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| Euryhaline organisms can survive wide salinity fluctuations | show 🗑
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| show | stenothermal
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| show | hyptonic
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| show | difference in salinity increases
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| show | isotonic with respect to their environment
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| show | tend to lose water by osmosis since their internal salt concentration is lower than that of seawater.
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| An organism that tolerates a wide range of salinities is referred to as | show 🗑
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| The movement of a substance in solution from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration across a selectively permeable membrane is: | show 🗑
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| The color pattern in which marine organisms are light on the bottom and dark on the top of their bodies camouflaging them against the water-air interface is: | show 🗑
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| A common body shape that streamlines an organism in the marine environment is a flattened body that: | show 🗑
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| The seasonal temperature range in the deep ocean is usually: | show 🗑
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| Most marine species are found in a(n): | show 🗑
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| Neritic marine environments would be found: | show 🗑
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| The euphotic zone is confined to the: | show 🗑
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| show | below the intertidal zone on the continental shelf
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| show | true
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| Organisms with small, expandable bodies, extremely large mouths, and efficient teeth are likely to be found in the: | show 🗑
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| show | producer
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| producer consumer or decomposer? bacteria | show 🗑
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| show | consumer
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| show | producer
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| producer consumer or decomposer? sargassum | show 🗑
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| show | consumer
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| show | true
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| Net primary production can be estimated as the amount of photosynthesis plus the amount of respiration. | show 🗑
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| The group of marine algae with the highest abundance and greatest geographic distribution belong to the Division Rhodophyta. | show 🗑
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| Most marine algae are limited to depths above 100 meters; red algae have been observed growing at depths of over 250 meters. | show 🗑
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| Diatoms are classified as members of the Division Chlorophyta. | show 🗑
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| Marine algae that grow close to the limits of light penetration have accessory photosynthetic pigments that absorb high energy, short-wavelength light in the blue region of the electromagnetic spectrum. | show 🗑
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| Eutrophication results in an overabundance of organic matter. | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| If the total caloric content of the autotrophic organisms in a marine ecosystem were 250,000 KCAL, then the expected caloric value for the second-level consumers would be 25,000 KCAL. | show 🗑
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| Consumers, producers, and decomposers are all examples of trophic levels within a food chain or food web. | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| Bacteria that make their own carbohydrates by obtaining energy from chemical compounds and not directly from the sun are: | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| show | nitrogen and phosphorous
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| The depth at which the cellular respiration rate equals the photosynthetic rate is referred to as the: | show 🗑
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| show | rhodophyta
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| Diatoms, important producers in the epipelagic open ocean, are members of the Division: | show 🗑
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| show | dinophyceae
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| show | diatoms
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| Marine flowering plants include ulva | show 🗑
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| Overproduction of organic matter resulting in anoxic conditions is attributed to: | show 🗑
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| Harmful algal blooms (HABs) may produce toxins that affect human neurological functioning. | show 🗑
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| HABs are caused by diatoms and coccolithophorids | show 🗑
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| show | inorganic nutrient input
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| show | temperate waters, polar waters, tropical waters.
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| show | nutrient concentrations are high, solar input is low, and water temperatures decrease.
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| show | nutrient concentrations are low, solar input is high, and oxygen solubility decreases.
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| An area of the open ocean where the rate of primary productivity is very low is referred to as a(n): | show 🗑
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| show | light-limited
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| Productivity in tropical oceans is: | show 🗑
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| show | 10KCAL
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| show | cyclic
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| Energy flow in an ecosystem is: | show 🗑
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| The efficiency of trophic transfers in ecosystems is on average around: | show 🗑
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| The percentage of biomass regularly recycled in the euphotic zone is about: | show 🗑
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| show | 1%
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| show | commensalism
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| The relationship between clown fishes and sea anemones is an example of: | show 🗑
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| The maximum sustainable yield (MSY) is best defined as: | show 🗑
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| The area of the ocean that produces the largest standing stock of commercial fish is in the | show 🗑
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| The term-bycatch refers to: | show 🗑
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| Catches above the maximum sustainable yield result in | show 🗑
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| show | surround and trap fishes
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| show | standing stock
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| order and suborder of blue whale | show 🗑
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| show | Order Cetacea, Suborder Odontoceti
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| show | Order Sirenia
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| show | Order Carnivora, Suborder Pinnipedia
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| order and suborder of gray whale | show 🗑
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| order and suborder of killer whale | show 🗑
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| show | Order Sirenia
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| show | Order Carnivora, Suborder Pinnipedia
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| show | Order Cetacea, Suborder Odontoceti
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| order and suborder of walrus | show 🗑
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| blue marlin fin shape | show 🗑
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| show | lunate caudal fin
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| flounder fin shape | show 🗑
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| show | truncate caudal fin
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| show | forked caudal fin
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| queen angel fin shape | show 🗑
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| show | truncate caudal fin
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| silvertip shark fin shape | show 🗑
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| show | heterocercal caudal fin
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| show | forked caudal fin
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| Strategies for staying afloat in pelagic environments include air bladder, increased body fat, and increased density. | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| The mysticeti whales include the humpback, the gray, and the sperm whales. | show 🗑
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| The California gray whale is unusual because it stirs up bottom sediment in order to feed. | show 🗑
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| The migration routes of marine fishes and mammals are well known by man. | show 🗑
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| show | jelly fish
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| Which set of 2 fins are used for turning and breaking? | show 🗑
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| show | anal and dorsal
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| The shape of the caudal fin of a shark is referred to as: | show 🗑
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| The caudal fin of fast-cruising fish such as tuna is: | show 🗑
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| The body shape among fishes varies greatly in accordance with habitat and life-style. A torpedo-shaped body is found among: | show 🗑
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| large bodies are adaptations of mesopelagic fishes | show 🗑
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| Bioluminescence is employed by mesopelagic animals for warning coloration | show 🗑
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| show | tuna
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| show | white
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| show | length
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| show | it increases the power output of muscle tissue
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| sperm whales are baleen whales | show 🗑
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| Sea lions are easily distinguished from seals because they have external | show 🗑
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| The humpback and other baleen whales migrate every year to | show 🗑
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| show | arrow worm
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| Choose the word that doesn't belong: anal, caudal, dorsal, pelvic, ventral | show 🗑
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| show | collapsible ribs
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| show | killer
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