Spring Semester Exam

Question 1

A flat strip of land, raised bank, or terrace bordering a river or canal

Answer 1

Been

Question 2

A sandbank or shoal at the mouth of a harbor, bay, or estuary.

Answer 2

Bar

Question 3

A tide just after a new or full moon (greatest difference between high and low water)

Answer 3

Spring tide

Question 4

The part of a terrestrial tide due to the mutual attraction between earth and moon

Answer 4

Lunar tide

Question 5

A pebbly or sandy shore, especially by the ocean between high and low water marks

Answer 5

Beach

Question 6

The concentration of dissolved salts in the water

Answer 6

Salinity

Question 7

The part of the land near the sea, the edge of the land

Answer 7

Coast

Question 8

A group of waves of equal or similar in wavelengths traveling in the same direction

Answer 8

Wave trains

Question 9

Wind generated waves

Answer 9

Wind waves

Question 10

The (relative) number of times something occurred in a given sample

Answer 10

Frequency

Question 11

The alternate rising and falling of the sea (twice each day)

Answer 11

Tides

Question 12

A breaking wave whose crest curls over and collapses suddenly

Answer 12

Plunging breakers

Question 13

An area of low-lying land that is flooded in wet season or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times

Answer 13

Marshes

Question 14

An area of low lying, uncultivated ground where water collects

Answer 14

Swamps

Question 15

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

Answer 15

Ecosystem

Question 16

The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream

Answer 16

Estuaries

Question 17

The arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities

Answer 17

Classification

Question 18

The branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms

Answer 18

Taxonomy

Question 19

The system of nomenclature in which two terms are used to denote a species of living organism, the first one indicating the genus and the second the specific epithet

Answer 19

Binomial nomenclature

Question 20

A key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified

Answer 20

Dichotomous key

Question 21

Plankton consisting of microscopic plants

Answer 21

Phytoplankton

Question 22

Plankton consisting of small animals and the immature stage of larger animals

Answer 22

Zooplankton

Question 23

Characteristics of crustaceans

Answer 23

• Hard exoskeleton
• two compound eyes
• two antennae
• three mouth parts
• a pair of green glands

Question 24

A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane

Answer 24

Osmosis

Question 25

Two solutions having the same osmotic pressure across a semi permeable membrane

Answer 25

Isotonic solution

Question 26

Any solution that has a lower osmotic pressure than another solution.

Answer 26

Hypotonic solution

Question 27

A solution with a higher concentration of solute than some other specific solution

Answer 27

Hypertonic solution

Question 28

An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide

Answer 28

Autotrophs

Question 29

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize food from carbon dioxide and water.

Answer 29

Photosynthesis

Question 30

The rate at which metabolic occurred in a living organism

Answer 30

Metabolic rate

Question 31

Dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat

Answer 31

Endothermic

Question 32

An animal that is dependent on external sources of body heat

Answer 32

Ectothermic

Question 33

A measure of hydrogen ion concentration; a measure of acidity or alkalinity of a solution

Answer 33

pH

Question 34

A fish of a warm seas that normally lies buried in the sand with only its eyes, which are on top of the head, protruding

Answer 34

Stargazer

Question 35

A mainly nocturnal elk-like predatory fish of warm seas that typically hides in crevices with just the head protruding

Answer 35

Moray eel

Question 36

An animal of large phylum chordata, comprising the vertebrae together with the sea squirts and lancelets

Answer 36

Chordata

Question 37

A gas-filled sac present in the body of many bony fishes,, used to maintain and control buoyancy

Answer 37

Swim-bladder

Question 38

A fish a warm seas that leap out of the water and used its winglike pectoral fins to glide over the surface for some distance

Answer 38

Flying fish

Question 39

Fish that live on or near the sea-bottom, irrespective of the depth of the sea

Answer 39

Benthic fish

Question 40

A light- producing organ in certain fishes and other animals

Answer 40

Photophores

Question 41

How many days are in a lunar month?

Answer 41

29.5

Question 42

Wind must be _____ km/hr to be considered a hurricane

Answer 42

105

Question 43

What do all living things depend on for survival ?

Answer 43

Sun/energy

Question 44

What is the only natural lake in Texas ?

Answer 44

Lake caddy

Question 45

Difference between Osteichthyes and Chondrichthyes ?

Answer 45

Chondrichthyes are cartilage fish (cartilaginous) & Osteichthyes are body fish