Exam 12: Life in the Ocean

An organism's metabolic rate increases as ____ increases.

The zone of ocean water where photosynthetic organisms have enough light to thrive is called the ____.

The average pH of seawater is about ____.

When the concentrations of dissolved substances in water on either side of a cell membrane are the same, the situation is described as being ____.

____ are responsible for the vast majority of the ocean's primary productivity.

Beneficial inheritable structural or behavioral traits are known as ____.

Consumers that eat primary producers are called ____.

Though it is difficult to generalize for the ocean as a whole, the bottom of the euphotic zone is about ____ deep in mid-latitudes.

An important part of Darwinian natural selection is that traits must be inheritable.

The process by which accumulated adaptations result in superficially similar animals derived from different stock is called ____.

The three domains of living things are the Eukarya, Bacteria, and ____.

Organisms that cannot make their own food are called ____.

Which wavelength of light penetrates to the greatest depth in ocean water?

The movement of water through a cell membrane from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration is called ____.

Most marine organisms have an internal temperature very close to that of their surroundings. They are known as ____ organisms.

Roughly ____ of the biomass consumed by any consumer is stored in the consumer as flesh.

Nitrogen and phosphorous can be depleted by photosynthetic organisms during times of high productivity.

The scientific name of an organism includes the genus and species name.

A tuna is an example of a top consumer.

Hydrogen sulfide is a high-energy molecule that can be used to make carbohydrates through the process of chemosynthesis.