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| organisms that live on the bottom |
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| Those that drift with the currents |
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| Those able to swim against the currents |
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| seperation of the water column into layers, with the densest, coldest water at the bottom, which prevents the mixing of the nutrient-rich deep water with the less dense, warmer upper layer. |
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| Sediment that comes from the physical or chemical breakdown of rocks on land |
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| Sediment composed of the skeletons and shells of marine organisms |
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| The transformation of onestage of a life cycle into another, as when a larva changes into a juvenile. |
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| Organisms that can create organic matter from Carbon Dioxide, usually by photosynthesis |
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| particles of dead organic matter |
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| Animals that feed on organic matter that settles in the sediment |
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| Animals, including filter feeders, that feed on particles suspended in the water column. |
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| pertaining to the water column away from the bottom or other structure |
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| the tropical Indian and western and central Pacific oceans |
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| the total weight of living organisms |
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| conversion of nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that can be used by primary producers as nutrients |
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| those that grow as a thin layer over rocks, such as some of the coralline algae. |
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| winds in the nothern Indian Ocean that blow from the southwest in summer but from the northeat in the winter |
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| the upward flow of cold, nutrient-rich deep water to the surface |
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| the combonation of what a species eats, where it lives, how it behaves, and all the other aspects of its lifestyle. |
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| a warming of the surface water in the Eastern Pacific, part of large-scale changes in atmospheric and ocean current patterns, or ENSO. |
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| A cooling trend on the surface water in the Eastern Pacific |
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