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Ch 14 Review MCs

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What is plankton?   Drifting or weakly swimming organisms suspended in water  
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What connects plankton in categories?   an ecological connection; size of organism  
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What research vessel carried out the first large-scale plankton study?   Meteor 1925-1926  
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What is included in a quantitative analysis of plankton?   an estimate of the sampled volume of water and a count of the the organisms  
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What is required to study very small plankton?   the concentration of water samples by centrifugation or entrapment by a filter  
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Why are phytoplankton critical for marine life?   They bind to at least 35 billion metric tons of carbons into carbohydrates ; contribution to food webs and their generation of large amounts of atmospheric oxygen through photosynthesis  
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Which plankton are considered microplankton?   diatoms, dinoflagellates, and invertebrate larvae  
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What is the smallest form of plankton?   femtoplankton  
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What planktonic group accounts for 80% of all photosynthesis in the tropics?   picoplankton  
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What is a microecosystem?   A community operating on the smallest possible scale  
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What is the most productive photosynthetic plankton apart from Cyanobacteria?   diatoms  
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What is a frustule?   A reference to the patterns of perforations through the diatom's rigid cell walls  
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What makes light absorption in diatoms more effective than just using chlorophyll?   accessory pigments  
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What allows diatoms to expand in size during reproduction?   the auxospore  
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What photosynthetic organism is found in the tissues of coral?   dinoflagellates  
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What is usually responsible for a harmful algal bloom?   species of dinoflagellates  
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A highly biological productive ocean surface appears chalky; what plankton is likely successful here?   coccolithophores  
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What do researchers use to directly measure the rate of productivity?   carbon-14  
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What new method(s) is/are being used to calculate productivity by estimating the chlorophyll?   remote sensing and orbiting satellites  
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What is essential in the restoration and continuation of photosynthetic productivity in the ocean?   upwelling  
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What can hinder photosynthetic productivity in the open ocean?   iron ; minerals and light  
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Why is photosynthesis inhibited at the very top layer of the ocean surface?   too much light  
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What is true of compensation depth?   -usually corresponds to te depth to which about 1% of surface light penetrates -marks the bottom of the euphotic zone changes with sun-angle, turbidity, surface turbulence, and other factors -production equals consumption  
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What changes the compensation depth?   sun-angle, turbidity, surface turbulence, and other factors  
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Where is phytoplankton the most productive?   near the continents or the temperate zone  
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What season does phytoplankton peak in the northern temperate zone?   fall  
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What is the most abundant larger zooplankton?   copepods  
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What kind of plankton remains planktonic for its entire life?   holoplankton  
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What Zooplankton is considered a keystone species?   krill  
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What is created due to the decomposition of falling biological debris and zooplankton activity?   oxygen minimum zone  
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