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| Deep ocean, 4000 - 6000 meters. |
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| Below lithosphere, involved in plate tectonics. |
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| Referring to organisms living on or in the bed of a water body. |
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| Carbonate Compensation Depth |
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| Is the depth in the oceans below which the rate of supply of calcium carbonate lags behind the rate of solvation, such that no calcium carbonate is preserved. |
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| Pigment that assists in photosynthesis. |
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| Energy is derived from simple inorganic compounds (Sulfur, methane). |
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| Maintains a high species richness since each time a gap opens, all have an equal chance of gaining and establishing. |
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| Steep drop off after contintental shelf. |
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| Gradual slope at edge of ocean. |
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| Point where continental slope turns into contintenal rise. |
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| Currents in the northern hemisphere rotate clockwise, southern: counterclockwise. Caused by earth's rotation. |
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| A discrete event which removes, damages, or impairs the normal function of organisms. |
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| Equatorial calms, where wind from north and south come together. |
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| Water spirals because of coriolis effect. |
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| El Nino southern oscillation. Climate pattern that changes every 5 years, warming of tropical eastern pacific ocean. |
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| Organisms that live on the ocean floor. |
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| Competitive exclusion principle. |
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| Water evaporates away from the equator, rises, travels to the equator and then precipitates. |
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| A graphic representation of the elevation and depth of points on the surface of a planet. |
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| Organisms that live in the ocean floor. |
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| Process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil. |
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| Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis |
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| States that local species diversity is maximized when ecological disturbance is neither too rare nor too frequent. |
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| Light Attenuation Formula |
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| Attenuation = 10 x log10 (input intensity/output intensity). |
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| Light-independent Reactions |
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| Light-dependent reactions |
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| Outermost shell of Earth. |
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| Close to sea/lake/river shore. |
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| Animals large enough to be seen by the naked eye. |
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| Small benthic invertebrates that live in both marine and fresh water environments. |
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| Swimming aquatic organisms. |
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| Entire niche an organism could occupy. |
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| Niche that is actually occupied. |
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| The Paradox of the Plankton |
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| The name given to the situation where a limited range of resources (light, nutrients) supports a much wider range of planktonic organisms. |
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| Organisms aren't evenly distributed. |
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