FINAL EXAM REVIEW MARINE SCIENCE 17-18

You are allowed one 3in x5in index card that is hand written. (both sides)

  1. Science is not based on faith. What are characteristics of science?
  2. Atmospheric circulation is caused by what?
  3. What is the difference between taxonomy and binomial nomenclature?
  4. Know the processes of the water cycle.
  5. As you dive deeper in the ocean what happens to the amount of light, temperature, and pressure?
  6. What is the difference between an autotroph and a heterotroph?
  7. Where do the elements needed for photosynthesis in the ocean come from?
  8. Describe a benthic ecosystem.
  9. What are some abiotic and biotic factors of a marine ecosystem?
  10. What is chemosynthesis?
  11. What is bioluminescence?
  12. What is the difference between an inference and an observation?
  13. Where does most of the Earth’s oxygen come from? Energy?
  14. What are the baleen plates of a gray whale an adaptation for?
  15. What causes changes in a thermohaline current?
  16. What is zooxanthellae?
  17. What are the characteristics of echinoderms?
  18. Where does most of the energy for Earth’s systems come from?
  19. What are the major groups of mollusks?
  20. Which organisms molt?
  21. What are the basic characteristics of arthropods?
  22. What are the three major types of cartilaginous fish?
  23. What events will cause the salinity of an ocean to go up? Think natural and anthropogenic (human)
  24. Water has a high heat capacity. Why is this important?
  25. What celestial body has the greatest effect on the tides?
  26. When light enters water at an angle it bends. Why?
  27. Which ocean zone has the greatest diversity of life due to sunlight?
  28. What are the different types of luminescence?
  29. How is an aquatic ecosystem different from a terrestrial ecosystem?
  30. What process moves carbon from the air to biosphere?
  31. List the major types of phytoplankton.
  32. Know the roles of organisms in a food chain and food web, such as primary consumer.
  33. How do phytoplankton get their food?
  34. What benefits do aquatic plants provide in the water?
  35. Identify organisms from the following phyla; Porifera, Cnidaria, Arthropoda, Echinodermata
  36. Know the fins of a shark using a diagram.
  37. Be able to identify marine vertebrates from a list.
  38. Be able to identify marine mammals from a list.
  39. What is the purpose of the operculum?
  40. Define salinity.
  41. List the 4 species of Sirenia.
  42. Be able to identify the major oceans of the world on a map.
  43. Define a thermocline.
  44. Plants are able to use which form of nitrogen?
  45. The continental and oceanic crusts are part of which layer of the Earth?
  46. Which 2 ideas were combined to form the theory of Plate tectonics?
  47. Where do trenches form?
  48. What do turbidity currents form?
  49. Define bathymetry.
  50. Be able to identify geological features of the ocean floor from a diagram. You do not need to know continental margins.
  51. How do man-made noises hurt marine organisms?
  52. Currents deflect to the right in the northern hemisphere, but deflect to the left in the southern hemisphere because of ______.
  53. Define tide.
  54. Be able to identify coral reef types from pictures.

HONORS CLASSES (periods 6 & 7)

  1. Identify organisms from the following classes of Mollusca; bivalvia, gastropoda, cephalopoda, polyplacophora
  2. Identify whether the following increase or decrease salinity; river run off, high temperature, sea ice formation, evaporation, precipitation, sea ice melting

Tank Chemistry and Maintenance

  1. Know the chemical formulas for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate