Classification of Marine Organisms

Question 1

What are the 4 types of plankton?

Answer 1

phytoplankton, zooplankton, bacterioplankton, vricoplankton

Question 2

3 types of Benthos

Answer 2

Epifauna, Infauna, Nektonbenthos

Question 3

What classification are sand dollars and sea stars

Answer 3

Benthos

Question 4

This classification includes marine mammals, reptiles, invertebrates, and adult fish

Answer 4

Nekton

Question 5

Organisms that spend their entire lives as plankton

Answer 5

Holoplankton

Question 6

Many organisms that spend their adult lives as nekton or benthos but spend their juvenile and/or larval stages as plankton

Answer 6

Meroplankton

Question 7

What are the “drifters”

Answer 7

Plankton

Question 8

What are the “swimmers”

Answer 8

Nekton

Question 9

What are the “Benthos”

Answer 9

Bottom dwellers

Question 10

Where was the first biocommunity at a hydrothermal vent discovered?

Answer 10

Galapagos rift

Question 11

When were deep-sea hydrothermal vent biocommunities discovered?

Answer 11

Late 1970’s

Question 12

What are large floating animals and algae, such as jellies and Sargassum called?

Answer 12

Macroplankton