Ocean 100 Final Exam – SDSU Questions and Answers 100% Solved

Ocean 100 Final Exam – SDSU

Questions and Answers 100% Solved


Euphotic zone - ✔✔first 200 meters

-where photosynthesis can take place

-suns radiation can be absorbed

Seed Plants - ✔✔-true plants

-not very abundant

-grasses, eelgrass and surfgrass

-mangroves

-like warm, muddy waters

-have a root system

Protists - ✔✔a) large algae(seaweed)

-brown algae(kelp), green (sponge weed), red (rhodophyta)

b) phytoplankton(small algae)

-most producers

-diatoms

-coccolithophores


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, -dinoflagellates

Eukaryotes - ✔✔seed plants and protists

Prokaryotes - ✔✔-ancient and very old

-blue-green algae, cyanobacteria

-first photosynthesizers, phytoplankton (chalk)

-red algae is adapted to survive at greater depths (irish moss)

regions of high productivity - ✔✔-polar regions

-coasts

-coral reefs

polar regions - ✔✔-no thermocline

-great amounts of sea life

coasts - ✔✔-upwelling b/c eckman transport(winds moving water)

-nutrients coming from land

coral reefs - ✔✔very productive

regions of low productivity - ✔✔-subtropical gyres

-far from coasts

-water doesn't move up or down

-no upwelling

-very high thermocline

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