Mangroves - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The area of the ocean past the continental shelf, with areas of open water often reaching to very great depths. - Answer-pelagic Area of ocean that extends from the low-tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf - Answer-neritic The bottom of any aquatic ecosystem - Answer-benthic A structure of calcite skeletons built up by coral animals in warm, shallow ocean water. diverse and productive environment named for the coral animals that make up its primary structure - Answer-cora...

Ocean 100 Sacramentogrilo Final Exam Questions And Answers (Updated And Verified) Biological productivity - answersynthesis of organic materials from inorganic substances by photosynthesis/chemosynthesis what are the inputs & outputs of photosynthesis? - answerinputs: water, carbon dioxide, & sun energy outputs: sugar & oxygen (6H2O + 6CO2 + sunlight - > C6H12O6 + 6O2) what are the different types of light penetration in the oceans? - answer1. red/orange = turned into heat energy b/...

APES Unit 1 Exam Review (2023/2024) Graded A+ intraspecific competition between members of the same species interspecific competition between members of different species competitive exclusion 1 species is a stronger competitor than the other coexisting species species alter behaviors to minimize competition, altering their niche niche A species role in an ecosystem selective pressure when the environment pushes an individual or population to adapt or evolve parasitism One organism benefit...

Dit document omvat een samenvatting van het vak Global Change, gegeven door prof. Philippe Huybrechts aan de VUB. Dit document bevat alle lectures, en is volledig uitgewerkt met behulp van lesnotities en de slides. Dit document is bevat lecture 1 (climate change, the physical science basis), lecture 2 (the thermohaline circulation), lecture 3 (the climate solution in less than 75 minutes), lecture 4 (land-atmosphere interactions in a changing climate), lecture 5 (mangroves in the anthropocen...

BOT3015 EXAM 3 Marking Scheme 2024 Brownian movement - ANSWER-molecules /ions in constant random motion Diffusion - ANSWER-movement of molecules or ions from region of higher concentration to region of lower concentration Molecules that are moving from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration are said to be moving ______________________________ - ANSWER-Along a diffusion gradient molecules moving from regions of low to high concentration are said to be movi...

and convergent boundaries - ANS plates that come together, possibly forming subduction zones therefore forming ocean trenches, volcanic activity, trenches, and earthquakes (->tsunamis) divergent boundaries - ANS plates going apart, causing seafloor spreading and forming volcanoes, mid-ocean ridges, abyssal plains, and hydrothermal vents transform boundaries - ANS plates moving in opposite directions, frequently causing earthquake activity ocean trenches - ANS ...

Benthic autotrophs - seaweeds, marine plants like sea grass Seaweed characteristics - most are benthic, distribution governed by light and temperature, most are annuals, greater diversity in the tropic Seaweed morphology - body called thallus, roots called holdfast, leaf-like structures called blades, possesses an air bladder to keep blades closer to water surface Seaweed morphology types - encrusting, filamentous, branched, and leaf-like Chlorophyta - green algae primary pigments: chlo...

OCR A Level Geography: Paper 3 Case Studies Exam Questions And Answers Bangladesh - ANS - LIC in South Asia - occupies Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, which supports the highest rural population densities in the world - exposure to hazards high and increasing - ability to adapt to climate change limited by poverty Bangladesh - ANS - 60 million live in poverty - GDP per capita: $2364 - 142 on UN HDI Bangladesh: impacts of climate change - ANS - low and flat: 4-5m above seas ...

Biological Productivity - the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem; western margins of continents have high prosuctivity and the Artic has the most because of high levels of upwelling and downwelling bc there is no thermocline Photosynthesis formula - 6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight ---> C6 H12 O6 + 6O2 Photosynthesis - Inputs: Carbon Dioxide, water, sunlightOutputs: Glucose, oxygen Euphotic Zone - Upper layer of a body of water through which sunlight can penetrate and support photos...

APES Midterm Review Questions with solutions 2024 sustainability -ability of Earth's various systems, including human cultural systems and economies, to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely environmental science -interdisciplinary study that uses information from the physical sciences and social sciences to understand how the earth works, learn how humans interact with the earth, and develop solutions to environmental problems ecology -biological...