Oceans

Photosynthesizers or plants can also be called???

• a consumer or heterotroph
• a producer or autotroph
• an omnivore
• an hrbivore

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Energy and nutrients flow through ecosystems in different ways because...

• energy forms chemical compounds and nutrients are lost as heat
• energy flows in one direction and nutrients recycle
• nutrients flow in one direction and energy recycles

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What is an estuary?

• The area of the ocean that extends from the low tide line to the edge of the continental shelf
• a coastal inlet or bay where fresh water from rivers mixes with salty ocean water
• the lowest layer of the ocean where light does not reach
• a geyser on the seafloor

what is the neritic zone?

• The area of the ocean that extends from the low tide to the edge of the continental shelf (includes coral reefs and kelp forests)
• a coastal inlet or bay where fresh and salt water mix
• the layer of the ocean where light does not reach
• the area that stretches from the high tide to the low tide on the continental shelf (the beach)

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What is the process by which plants capture energy from sunlight and use it to make food and oxygen is released as a by-product

• cellular respiration
• photosynthesis
• photic zone
• plankton

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What happens to the phytoplankton in an area of upwelling?

• it decreases
• it stays the same
• it increases

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What happens to the temperature of water in an area of upwelling?

• it increases
• it decreases
• it stays the same

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What happens to the amount of fish found near an area of upwelling?

• it increases
• it decreases
• it stays the same

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oysters, snails and blue crabs are all examples of which lifestyle?

• benthos
• nekton
• plankton

herring, bluefish and clownfish are all examples of which type of lifestyle?

• benthos
• nekton
• plankton