Marine Habitats

A tropical or subtropical marine swamp that is characterized by the abundance of low to tall trees

• Coral Reef

• Estuary

• Marshes

• Mangrove Swamp

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What makes an estuary wildlife unique

• They are pretty

• They can handle different levels of salinity

• They grow to huge sizes

• They eat lots of freshwater organisms

When corals turn white due to algae leaving it is know as

• whiteout.

• coral bleaching.

• algal disease.

• coral death.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Both the arctic and antarctic ecosystems...

• have penguins as intermediate predators.

• have polar bears as top predators.

• have plankton at the base of the food chain.

• have large amount of land area with plants.

How do satellites help marine scientists?

• Satellites reveal how animals ‘see’ their own sea habitats.

• Satellites depict ocean productivity in color.

• Satellites can spot marine debris and oil spills.

• All the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A marine invertebrate group with pentaradial symmetry and tube feet.

• crustaceans

• bony fish

• zooplankton

• echinoderms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A marine invertebrate group with a hard skeleton, ten jointed legs and a nauplius larval stage

• crustaceans

• zooplankton

• echinoderm

• bony fish

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which key group of marine organisms does belong in?

• zooplankton

• macroalgae

• echinoderm

• crustacean

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

commonly used in marine science to find out if there is a correlation between two sets of variables

• Lincoln index

• Simpson index

• scatter graph

• Spearman's rank

Marine producers such as kelp and seaweed

• plankton

• zooplankton

• marine grasses

• macroalgae

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4