Apologia Marine Biology Review Module 9-12
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Desiccated | A term referring to an organism that has lost its body moisture (213) |
| Ecological succession | A gradually increasing occupation of new organisms into a specific area (224) |
| Epifauna | Benthic animals that move about the surface of the sea bottom or are firmly attached to is (212) |
| Infauna | Organisms that live under sediment of an ecosystem (227) |
| Intertidal zone | The are of shoreline between high and low tides (211) |
| Sessile | A member of the epifauna that lives attached to a substrate (212) |
| Substrate | The bottom surface of a marine habitat (212) |
| Vertical zonation | Noticeable horizontal bands of organisms living within a certain range in the intertidal zone (219)Brackish Water that is less salty than seawater but saltier than fresh water (247) |
| Channels | Estuarine areas where water is present both during high and low tides (255) |
| Euryhaline | Species that can tolerate a wide range of salinities (247) |
| Meiofauna | Microscopic organisms living in between marine sediment particles (254) |
| Mudflats | Wide expanses of an estuary that are exposed during low tide (253) |
| Stenohaline | Species that can tolerate a narrow range of salinities (247) |
| Wetlands | Estuarine area of high elevations that are periodically covers with water (249) |
| Estuary | semi-closed area where fresh water from a river meets salt water from the ocean at the mouth of a river.Atoll A ring of coral reed with steep outer slopes, enclosing a shallow lagoon (272) |
| Barrier reef | A type of coral reef that occurs at a distance from the coast (270) |
| Columella | Central projections from the floor of a corallite cup (265) |
| Corallite | The cup-shaped calcium skeleton in which a coral polyp site (265) |
| Fringing reef | A type of coral reef that forms as a border along the coast (269) |
| Septa | A series of sharp ridges radiating from the center of a corallite cup (265) |
| Benthos | Marine organisms that live on the sea bottom (285) |
| Nekton | Marine organisms that swim strongly enough to move against the ocean current (285) |
| Plankton | Marine organisms that cannot swim strongly enough to move against the ocean current (285) |
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