Oceanography Chapter 12 part 2

What are the 4 biozones of the oceanic province? (Ch. 12, Section "What are the main divisions of the marine environment?")

-Epipelagic -Mesopelagic -Bathypelagic -Abyssopelagic

What are the reasons the ocean has a smaller daily, seasonal, and annual temperature range than that experienced on land? (Ch. 12, Section "Temperature")

-high heat capacity -ocean warming reduced by evaporation -solar radiation penetrates deeply into ocean layers -ocean mixing

What is the neritic province? (Ch. 12, Section "What are the main divisions of the marine environment?")

Less than 200 meters deep (coastal)

What is the deepest zone of the suboceanic province? (Ch. 12, Section "Benthic Environment")

Subneritic/benthic

Most fresh water fish are hypertonic, meaning their body cells contain more salt than the surrounding water. Since osmosis should push water into their cells, why don't they explode? (Ch. 12, Section "Salinity")

all of the above

Freshwater fish are isotonic, hypertonic, or hypotonic relative to their environment? (Ch. 12, Section "Salinity")

hypertonic

How does water pressure change with depth? (Ch. 12, Section "Pressure")

increases about 1 atmosphere for every 10 meters (1 kg/cm)

What is the primary difference between pelagic environment zones below the photic zone? (Ch. 12, Section "What Are Living Things, and How Are They Classified?")

increasing pressure with increasing depth

What is the definition of eurythermal? (Ch. 12, Section "Temperature")

organisms can withstand large variation in temperature

What is the euphotic zone? (Ch. 12, Section "What are the main divisions of the marine environment?")

surface to where there's enough light to support photosynthesis