Why do certain areas have high production in comparison to other areas on a map of global primary production?
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Photosynthesis
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Chemosynthesis
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What does it mean to be planktonic?
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How do we categorize major groups of plankton?
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What is the microbial loop?
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What are femtoplankton?
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How can parts of the ocean be nitrogen limited? How do organisms eventually get to use it?
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characteristics of the primary groups of phytoplankton
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What are the main limiting factors that control phytoplankton production? Which are most important as latitude changes?
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What regions and what depths generally have the greatest productivity?
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How are regions of the oceans defined by light availability?
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Are the general depths associated with these regions fairly constant or do they vary? Explain why or why not.
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Are kelp and algae true plants?
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How are algae and kelp similar and different from true plants?
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What roles do algae play in various ecosystems in the ocean?
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what roles do Kelp play in various ecosystems in the ocean?
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Are seagrasses true plant?
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Are mangroves true plants?
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How are seagrasses and mangrove similar and different from true plants?
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What roles do seagrasses play in various ecosystems?
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What roles do mangrove play in various ecosystems?
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What is an average tropic efficiency? What does this mean in terms of energy movement up the food chain?
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How may the removal of a keystone predator affect an ecosystem? What would happen if you remove the sea otters from an ecosystem?
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bioaccumulation
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biomagnification
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Annelida -
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Arthropoda -
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Mollusca
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Echinodermata
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Chordata
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What characteristics make a fish a fish?
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Three kinds of fish?
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How do bony fish differ from cartilaginous fish?
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How are sea turtles similar and different to land turtles?
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What are the major threats to sea turtles?
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What determines the sex of baby turtles?
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Describe some of the adaptations that sea birds exhibit which make them particularly well adapted for live on the ocean.
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How are penguins similar and different to normal birds?
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Why do all birds have similar coloration patterns?
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Are polar bears major predators of penguins?
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What characteristics define a mammal?
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What is a marine mammal?
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What are the two major types of pinnipeds?
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How do they differ from each other and from
cetaceans?
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What are the primary characteristics of sea otters?
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How do sea otters differ from other marine mammals?
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What are the two types of cetaceans and what are their defining characteristics?
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How do toothed whales and baleen whales differ from each other?
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How are manatees and dugongs different from each other and from other marine mammals?
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Describe how the environment influences where marine organisms are capable of living
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What kinds of factors are most important in determining
what species are capable of living in different intertidal zones?
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What is wrack? Why is it important?
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What is meiofauna? Why are they important?
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What role does kelp play in temperate ecosystems?
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What are urchin barrens?
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What are the two main categories of zooplankton?
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Why do many scientists believe that animals migrate vertically in the water column?
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How are hydrothermal vent communities different from surface pelagic communities?
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Why are coral reef ecosystems so diverse and productive if they are usually found in warm, clear, nutrient-poor waters? How do they get the nutrients/food?
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Describe the primary threats to the marine environment.
What is the biggest current threat to marine ecosystems?
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Why are some types of fishing damaging to marine ecosystems
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Define bycatch
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ghost fishing
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Rockhopper
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Identify at least 4 different types of pollution which can harm many of the organisms in the oceans. How do each of these cause a problem?
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Why do exotic species pose a threat to local marine ecosystems? How are they typically introduced?
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Name at least 4 potential underlying causes that may
result in environmental problems.
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Explain how the problem of common pool resources can lead to over-exploitation of marine resources.
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Explain how the principle of discounting can be used to partially explain why we tend to overuse marine resources so quickly.
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Describe at least one external cost that is not typically factored into the price we pay for fish. What does this mean?
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Which country has jurisdiction over more ocean waters than any other country? Explain why this is.
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Why is it so difficult to regulate fishing or dumping in the open ocean?
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What are at least 4 ways that the government can regulate fishing inside of our territorial waters?
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Why is it useful to put minimum and maximum size limits on the fish that can be caught?
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What is a marine reserve and how are they different from other policy tools that we can use to regulate fishing? Do they only help the area inside of the reserve?
Explain!
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Brown algae are known as the ________.
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The most productive region in an ocean is the ________.
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Sponges:
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Sedentary animals that live somehow attached to an area have a body plan known as:
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Difficulties of living in the rocky intertidal zone include all of the following except:
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In a coral reef, different species of small fishes occupy the same ________ but different ________.
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The most important physical factor affecting rocky intertidal communities is ________.