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Chapter 1Chapter 1

Look in the book and find your favorite chapter. What is your favorite chapter and why did you pick it?

Look in the book and find your favorite chapter. What is your favorite chapter and why did you pick it?

How many oceans are there? What are their names?

What structure can be found in the middle of the Atlantic?

What can creatures of the deep produce?

Who invented SCUBA?Why do lots of small fish swim

together?

How many oceans are there? What are their names?

What structure can be found in the middle of the Atlantic?

What can creatures of the deep produce?

Who invented SCUBA?Why do lots of small fish swim

together?

List 4 reasons why you should study Marine Biology?

How much money are the ocean’s living systems worth?

What is the difference between physical and geological oceanography?

What is Marine Biology?

List 4 reasons why you should study Marine Biology?

How much money are the ocean’s living systems worth?

What is the difference between physical and geological oceanography?

What is Marine Biology?

Who Am I? Who Am I?

Who is considered to be the 1st marine biologist?

Who is Charles Darwin? What did he study?

Who was considered to be the most influential marine biologist of his day?

Who lead the Challenger Expedition?What did the Challenger expedition

do?

Who is considered to be the 1st marine biologist?

Who is Charles Darwin? What did he study?

Who was considered to be the most influential marine biologist of his day?

Who lead the Challenger Expedition?What did the Challenger expedition

do?

Where was the first marine lab located?

Where was the first marine lab in the US located?

Who developed the basic technology of SCUBA?

Who devoted his life to scuba diving and the oceans?

What can satellites measure?What can remote sensing

technology be used for?

Where was the first marine lab located?

Where was the first marine lab in the US located?

Who developed the basic technology of SCUBA?

Who devoted his life to scuba diving and the oceans?

What can satellites measure?What can remote sensing

technology be used for?

Chapter 2Chapter 2

What is a habitat?What do geological processes

determine?What are the four major ocean

basins?Which ocean is the largest and

deepest?Which ocean is the smallest and

shallowest?

What is a habitat?What do geological processes

determine?What are the four major ocean

basins?Which ocean is the largest and

deepest?Which ocean is the smallest and

shallowest?

How old is earth?What is the equation for

density?What are the three layers of

earth?How is earth’s magnetic field

generated?How does the mantle behave?

How old is earth?What is the equation for

density?What are the three layers of

earth?How is earth’s magnetic field

generated?How does the mantle behave?

Two Types of Plates Make Up the Earth’s Crust

Two Types of Plates Make Up the Earth’s Crust

Continental Oceanic

Made of

Density

Age (oldest rocks)

Thickness

What did Bacon observe about the continents?What did Alfred Wegner propose? Why was it

not accepted?What did sonar help to find in the oceans?What are the two main ridges in the ocean? What island sits on the mid-Atlantic ridge?Where are most trenches found?What did the Glomar Challenger determine

about rock age and sediment build-up?

What did Bacon observe about the continents?What did Alfred Wegner propose? Why was it

not accepted?What did sonar help to find in the oceans?What are the two main ridges in the ocean? What island sits on the mid-Atlantic ridge?Where are most trenches found?What did the Glomar Challenger determine

about rock age and sediment build-up?

What does earth’s magnetic field do every once in a while?How are bands located around the mid-

ocean ridge?What are rifts known as?What is the lithosphere broken up into?What layer do the plates float on?What happens in the asthenosphere that

helps move the plates?What is subduction? Where does it

occur?Explain how sea floor spreading works?

What does earth’s magnetic field do every once in a while?How are bands located around the mid-

ocean ridge?What are rifts known as?What is the lithosphere broken up into?What layer do the plates float on?What happens in the asthenosphere that

helps move the plates?What is subduction? Where does it

occur?Explain how sea floor spreading works?

What is a Hot Spot? What can they make?What are the two main regions of the sea

floor?What are the most productive areas in

the ocean?Which area of the ocean floor contains

lots of sediments?Where is the deepest spot on earth? What is the difference between

seamounts and guyots?

What is a Hot Spot? What can they make?What are the two main regions of the sea

floor?What are the most productive areas in

the ocean?Which area of the ocean floor contains

lots of sediments?Where is the deepest spot on earth? What is the difference between

seamounts and guyots?

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What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?

What happens when an oceanic plate collides with an oceanic plate?

What happens when a continental plate collides with a continental plate?

What is subduction?What is a convection current?

What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?

What happens when an oceanic plate collides with an oceanic plate?

What happens when a continental plate collides with a continental plate?

What is subduction?What is a convection current?

Chapter 3Chapter 3

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What does a water molecule look like?

What is polarity? Draw it in a water molecule?

What three states does water exist in?

What is a solvent?What is an ion?

What does a water molecule look like?

What is polarity? Draw it in a water molecule?

What three states does water exist in?

What is a solvent?What is an ion?

9/28/129/28/12What two factors determine where

an organism lives?What are hydrogen bonds?What is heat capacity?Why does water have a high heat

capacity?As water cools, what happens to

its density?Why is waters high heat capacity

important?

What two factors determine where an organism lives?

What are hydrogen bonds?What is heat capacity?Why does water have a high heat

capacity?As water cools, what happens to

its density?Why is waters high heat capacity

important?

10/1/1210/1/12Why is water the universal solvent?Where do the salts in the ocean

water come from?What are the two major ions in salt

water?What is salinity?What does the rule of constant

proportions tell us?What happens to salinity if: Water

evaporates? Water freezes? It rains?

Why is water the universal solvent?Where do the salts in the ocean

water come from?What are the two major ions in salt

water?What is salinity?What does the rule of constant

proportions tell us?What happens to salinity if: Water

evaporates? Water freezes? It rains?

What is a water column?What are the 3 most important gases in

the ocean?How do the gases get into the water?

What is this called?What is the relationship between

temperature and dissolved oxygen?Why is carbon dioxide so soluble in

water? What color penetrates water the most?

The least?What causes turbidity?What happens to pressure as you go

deeper into the ocean?

What is a water column?What are the 3 most important gases in

the ocean?How do the gases get into the water?

What is this called?What is the relationship between

temperature and dissolved oxygen?Why is carbon dioxide so soluble in

water? What color penetrates water the most?

The least?What causes turbidity?What happens to pressure as you go

deeper into the ocean?

What one factor determines the three dimensional structure of the sea?Compare deep water with surface water?What is an unstable water column?What is overturn?What three factors determine the

salinity of the open ocean?What is a water mass?Why is thermohaline circulation

important?What is a thermocline?What are the three layers of the ocean?

What one factor determines the three dimensional structure of the sea?Compare deep water with surface water?What is an unstable water column?What is overturn?What three factors determine the

salinity of the open ocean?What is a water mass?Why is thermohaline circulation

important?What is a thermocline?What are the three layers of the ocean?

Where does most of the motion in the ocean occur?What causes the motion in the ocean? What

causes that?What is the Coriolis effect? What happens

to an object in the northern hemisphere?Because of the Coriolis effect, water moves

at what angle from the direction of the wind?How are currents responsible for weather?What is a gyre?

Where does most of the motion in the ocean occur?What causes the motion in the ocean? What

causes that?What is the Coriolis effect? What happens

to an object in the northern hemisphere?Because of the Coriolis effect, water moves

at what angle from the direction of the wind?How are currents responsible for weather?What is a gyre?

What causes waves?Draw a wave and label the

parts.What is the fetch?How does water move in a

wave?What is a tsunami?

What causes waves?Draw a wave and label the

parts.What is the fetch?How does water move in a

wave?What is a tsunami?

What happens in a spring tide?

What happens in a neap tide?What is the tidal range?What is a fetch?Where can we find a very

large tidal range?

What happens in a spring tide?

What happens in a neap tide?What is the tidal range?What is a fetch?Where can we find a very

large tidal range?

Chapter 10Chapter 10

What is Ecology?What are some abiotic

factors?What controls populations?What is the carrying capacity

of the environment?What is competition?

What is Ecology?What are some abiotic

factors?What controls populations?What is the carrying capacity

of the environment?What is competition?

What is a habitat?What is the difference

between abiotic and biotic factors?

What is a community?What is a population?What is competition?

What is a habitat?What is the difference

between abiotic and biotic factors?

What is a community?What is a population?What is competition?

How much energy is passed on from trophic level to trophic level?What is Biomass?In fig10.13, what are the producers?

Primary consumers? Secondary consumers? Autotrophs? Heterotrophs?In fig. 10.14, list two food chains you

would find this food web? What are three tertiary consumers? 4th level consumer? Top predator?If the diatoms have 1000 calories, how

much would the krill have? Petrel? Skua?

How much energy is passed on from trophic level to trophic level?What is Biomass?In fig10.13, what are the producers?

Primary consumers? Secondary consumers? Autotrophs? Heterotrophs?In fig. 10.14, list two food chains you

would find this food web? What are three tertiary consumers? 4th level consumer? Top predator?If the diatoms have 1000 calories, how

much would the krill have? Petrel? Skua?

What are some predatory strategies?

What is coevolution?What is a symbiont?What is commensalism?What is parasitism?What is mutalism?

What are some predatory strategies?

What is coevolution?What is a symbiont?What is commensalism?What is parasitism?What is mutalism?

What are two examples of decomposers?

What is DOM?What is detritus?What is productivity?What two factors limit

primary productivity?

What are two examples of decomposers?

What is DOM?What is detritus?What is productivity?What two factors limit

primary productivity?

Chapter 13Chapter 13

What are the three major nutrient cycles?

Where can you find a benthic organism?

Where can you find a pelagic organism?

What are sessile organisms?What are nekton?What are the depth zones of the

pelagic realm?

What are the three major nutrient cycles?

Where can you find a benthic organism?

Where can you find a pelagic organism?

What are sessile organisms?What are nekton?What are the depth zones of the

pelagic realm?

What are some of the riches of the continental shelf?

What zones do the continental shelf communities live in?

What are the two factors that affect the shelf’s fundamental characteristics?

What are lithogenous sediments?

What are some of the riches of the continental shelf?

What zones do the continental shelf communities live in?

What are the two factors that affect the shelf’s fundamental characteristics?

What are lithogenous sediments?

Why are continental shelf communities more at risk than other communities?

What factors determine the distribution of soft bottom communities?

Why is there higher diversity in the soft-bottom communities?

Why are continental shelf communities more at risk than other communities?

What factors determine the distribution of soft bottom communities?

Why is there higher diversity in the soft-bottom communities?

What are infauna?What are epifauna?What is Zostera marina?Why are sea grass beds so

productive?What are suspension feeders?What are deposit feeders?

What are infauna?What are epifauna?What is Zostera marina?Why are sea grass beds so

productive?What are suspension feeders?What are deposit feeders?

What is a kelp?What physical factors do kelp

need to grow?Explain the relationship

between kelp, sea urchins and sea otters.

What is a kelp?What physical factors do kelp

need to grow?Explain the relationship

between kelp, sea urchins and sea otters.

Chapter 15Chapter 15

What are three characteristics of the pelagic?What types of organisms are common in

the pelagic?What organisms form the basis of the

food chain?Why are protozoan zooplankton

important?Which type of zooplankton do whales eat?Why are jellyfish considered part of the

plankton?

What are three characteristics of the pelagic?What types of organisms are common in

the pelagic?What organisms form the basis of the

food chain?Why are protozoan zooplankton

important?Which type of zooplankton do whales eat?Why are jellyfish considered part of the

plankton?

What are holoplankton?What are meroplankton?What are some adaptations

plankton have to stay in the epipelagic?

Draw a copepod.Draw a dinoflagellate.

What are holoplankton?What are meroplankton?What are some adaptations

plankton have to stay in the epipelagic?

Draw a copepod.Draw a dinoflagellate.

What are Neuston?What are some examples of

nekton?What are the requirements for

prey in the epipelagic?What are the two problems

organisms face in the epipelagic?What adaptations do plankton

have to help them stay afloat?

What are Neuston?What are some examples of

nekton?What are the requirements for

prey in the epipelagic?What are the two problems

organisms face in the epipelagic?What adaptations do plankton

have to help them stay afloat?

What are most of the adaptations of epipelagic organisms related to?

What are some of the sense organs of the epipelagic?

What is countershading? How does it work?

What are some adaptations that nekton have for swimming?

What are most of the adaptations of epipelagic organisms related to?

What are some of the sense organs of the epipelagic?

What is countershading? How does it work?

What are some adaptations that nekton have for swimming?

Why are epipelagic food webs of particular interest to us?What is a basic food chain in the

epipelagic?What two things do phytoplankton need

to perform photosynthesis?What are the 3 major nutrients that

control primary production?Where are nutrient rich waters found in

the ocean?How do nutrients get into the epipelagic?

Why are epipelagic food webs of particular interest to us?What is a basic food chain in the

epipelagic?What two things do phytoplankton need

to perform photosynthesis?What are the 3 major nutrients that

control primary production?Where are nutrient rich waters found in

the ocean?How do nutrients get into the epipelagic?