apologia marine bio mod 13 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

How is the weather in India connected to the weather in Peru and Chile?

They are part of a phenomenon called El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-a sea saw effect of barometric pressure, resulting in extreme weather in both areas

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What is the most abundant group of zooplankton in the epipelagic?

copepods - a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat.

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What is the most common reason for vertical migration?

nocturnal vertical migration, organisms ascend to the surface around dusk, remaining at the surface for the night to feed

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The microbial loop is sometimes referred to as a food web within a food web. Why?

The microbial loop is a small food web that utilizes DOM that leaks out of other organisms.

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What is the Neritic zone?

epipelagic waters lying over the continental shelf

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What is the difference between the prefixes 'mero" and "holo"?

"mero" means part and "Holo" mean whole

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What happens in tropical regions where it doesn’t cool, has a distinct thermocline and doesn't have a steady wind blowing?

limited mixing

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As a rule, most overturn occurs where? When is primary production the highest?

temperate and warmer polar latitudes, during the winter. however spring has the most primary production because that is when there is more sunlight

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what happens in polar regions where all the water is cold, and there is no thermocline?

Continuous mixing, however, primary production is limited by the sunlight which varies depending on the season(salt)

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Why can cyanobacteria survive in nutrient poor water?

They are nitrogen fixers, gaining nitrogen from N2 gas dissolved in the water.

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Larvaceans are important predators in the epipelagic, as well as providing an important food source for other organisms. What do they eat and what do they provide?

a. they eat the pico and nano plankton b. they produce and shed mucous coverings many times as they grow.

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Which epipelagic creatures undergo vertical migration and why?

Zooplankton daily leave the photic zone to deeper depths to escape predation.

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