Exam 14: Plankton, Algae, and Plants

What is included in a quantitative analysis of plankton?

Nearshore productivity is almost always more productive than open ocean productivity.

Plankton are categorized by their visibility or the means in which they are collected.

What is true of compensation depth?

What are the disadvantages of using biomass as a means to calculate primary productivity? What are some other means used to measure this productivity?

What makes light absorption in diatoms more effective than just using chlorophyll?

What Zooplankton is considered a keystone species?

What is created due to the decomposition of falling biological debris and zooplankton activity?

Describe a microecosystem. How do plankton species interact in these microecosystems?

What is the smallest form of plankton?

What is the most productive photosynthetic plankton apart from Cyanobacteria?

What new method is being used to calculate productivity by estimating the chlorophyll?

What is a microecosystem?

Which plankton are considered microplankton?

Why are phytoplankton critical for marine life?

Most phytoplankton stay near the surface to absorb red light.

A vertical migration of plankton is responsible for mixing nutrient-rich deep water with the nutrient-poor surface water.

What connects plankton in categories?

Where is phytoplankton the most productive?

What photosynthetic organism is found in the tissues of coral?