INTRO TO MARINE SCIENCE CERTIFICATION EVALUATION FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED PREPARATION MATERIAL

INTRO TO MARINE SCIENCE
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION FULL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
PREPARATION MATERIAL

●● Sustaining
Answer: to keep in existence; maintain


●● Biodiversity
Answer: the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or
ecosystem.


●● Plate tectonics
Answer: a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many
associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid
lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying mantle.


●● Seafloor spreading
Answer: The process that creates new sea floor as plates move away
from each other at the mid-ocean ridges


●● Ecosystem
Answer: A community of organisms and their abiotic environment

, ●● Taxonomic
Answer: concerning identification, naming and grouping of living
organisms; classification


●● Photosynthesis
Answer: process by which plants and some other organisms use light
energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy
carbohydrates such as sugars and starches


●● Productivity
Answer: The value of a particular product compared to the amount of
labor needed to make it.


●● Abiotic
Answer: non-living things in an environment


●● Biotic
Answer: living things in an environment


●● Preyed
Answer: hunt and kill for food