Exam 11: The Living Ocean

Most fish species are easily able to tolerate a large range of salinities.

In the open ocean, photosynthesis can occur to an average depth of ________.

Molecular transport that acts upon momentum is called ________.

All of the following can be used as nutrients by the vast majority of marine photosynthesizers except ________.

Populations can be isolated from one another by changes in ________.

Which zone changes most with latitude?

Which of the following are not protists?

On average, the individual cells that make up a whale are thousands of times larger than the individual cells that make up a small marine worm.

Cold-loving organisms are referred to as ________.

Bacteria that make their own organic compounds by obtaining energy from chemical compounds and not directly from light are ________.

Cyanobacteria are characterized by being ________.

Members of the most ancient group of organisms, the prokaryotes, still exist today.

Countershading of fish ________.

To maintain their bodies' water balance, marine fish ________.

Moving from land to ocean, the order of the zones is ________.

Taxonomy is the scientific classification of the ocean's environmental zones.

Microorganisms are more impacted by viscosity than gravity.

Sunlight usually penetrates to a greater depth in coastal waters than in the open sea.

Increased interest in the oceans' biodiversity is due to ________.

Small organisms in the ocean, such as single-celled plankton, tend to be dominated primarily by ________ forces while large organisms such as fish and whales are more impacted by ________.