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What is a major problem for warm blooded animals in oceans?

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Heat loss

1
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How much denser is water than air?

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800 x

2
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What are Reynold’s numbers?

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Inertia /viscosity

3
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What problem does as oceanic habitat pose for large animals?

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Inertia is high therefore a lot of effort is required to get moving

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What is a problem of an oceanic environment for small animals?

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Viscosity is high

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What poses a significant disadvantage of predation in marine environments opposed to terrestrial environments?

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The ocean is a 3D environment were as on land most predator/prey can only move in one plane, sometimes 2

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What are the layers of the ocean?

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Epipelagic zone
Mesopelagic zone
Bathypelagic zone
Abyssopelagic zone
Hadalpelagic zone
7
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What is a problem for vision in the ocean?

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Loose both quantity and quality of light as descend, as well as shifting the blue. Only 1% remains at 100m

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What is difficult about harvesting primary producers in the ocean?

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They are clustered and shift temporally

9
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Outline the basic oceanic food web

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Phytoplankton –> zooplankton –> benthic invertebrates/ benthic fish / pelagic fish

10
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Give an example of a diatom

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Thalassionema nitzschoides it is phytoplankton

11
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Give an example of a flagellate

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Ceratium tripos they are all phytoplankton

12
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What do herbivorous oceanic species feed on?

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Phytoplankton they are normally zooplankton

13
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Give an example of a herbivorous oceanic species

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Calanus ferimorchians

14
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Give an example of a carnivorous aquatic copepod

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Pereuchaeta norvegica

15
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What is krill?

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Small shrimp like animals

16
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Why does the antarctic have a diverse oceanic ecosystem?

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24 hour daylight can sustain large volumes of phytoplankton

17
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What are the movements of phytoplankton dependent upon?

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The currents due to drifting nutrient sources

18
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What clade are whales in?

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Cetartiodactyla

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What order are the whales?

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Cetacea

20
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What are the two whale sub orders?

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Odontoceti (toothed whales)

Mysticeti (baleen whales)

21
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What are toothed whales?

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Odontoceti

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What are baleen whales?

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Mysticeti

23
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What are the classes of odontoceti?

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Platanistidae (river dolphins)
Ziphiidae (beaked whales)
Physeteridae (sperm whales)
Monodontidae (beluga and narwhals)
Delphinidae (dolphins, orcas and porpoises)
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What is the diet of river dolphins?

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Squid and fish

25
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What is the diet of sperm whales?

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Almost exclusively squid

26
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What is the diet of delphinidae?

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Fish

27
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How have Orcas adapted to hunt schools of herring?

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They move in synchronised groups to herd the herring to the surface therefore creating a 2D environment

28
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How have humpback whales adapted to feed on schools of fish?

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Bubble netting condenses the fish

29
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What are the classes of mysticeti?

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Eschrichtidae (gray whales)
Balenopteridae ( blue, humpback and finback whales)
Balaenidae (right whales)