Exam 13: Life in the Ocean

Most biological productivity in the ocean occurs in the euphotic zone.

Which classification is so large it is considered a domain?

How are the levels of carbon dioxide linked to the photic and aphotic zones? How does this relate to the temperature of the water?

What is entropy?

There is a much faster nutrient cycling rate on land from producers to consumers than in the ocean.

Living organisms represent the flow of energy towards decreasing order or chaos.

What inorganic nutrient is required for primary production?

What physical factor can denature or alter a proteins structure in a cell?

What layer is permanently devoid of light?

What did Darwin suggest the driving force of evolution was?

Chemosynthesis is the main method of binding energy into carbohydrates on the planet.

Which zone is the deepest seabed zone?

What is convergent evolution?

What is the difference between an artificial system of classification and a natural system of classification? Which do we use today? Explain our current taxonomic system.

Which community has the highest level of net primary production?

What kind of movement of particles is able to move against normal concentration gradients?

What kind of metabolic rate do humans have?

The trace metal iron is required for photosynthesis and nitrogen fixing enzymes.

What element is used to link nucleic acids in all organisms?

Some ____ are considered to be extremophiles.