Ecology Pretest - Geography Worksheets (Page 2 of 4) in pdf

32. What is a region where a freshwater source meets the salt water of the ocean?

33. Even though all ocean waters are connected, do they all have the same characteristics?

34. What was the reasoning behind dumping pollutants at sea for many years?

35. What are two limiting factors of the desert mentioned in this chapter?

36. Does water near Earth’s equator receive more or less radiation from the sun than ocean waters closer

to poles?

37. After dumping pollutants at sea for many years what resulted?

38. Are the oceans near the poles more salty than the oceans near the equator? Why?

39. What are three ways that ocean waters differ and why?

40. What Act was passed that banned the disposal of industrial waste dumping at sea? When?

41. What limiting factor limits the diversity of the deep ocean?

42. What type reefs are formed in the warmer waters of the tropics?

43. Are the widths of all continental shelves the same?

44. Deep water organisms have adapted to what three characteristics?

45. How do zooxanthellae algae beneﬁt the coral reefs?

46. Are waters near the poles more or less dense than waters elsewhere? Why?

47. Do the waters of the neritic zone usually receive enough light for photosynthesis to occur?

48. How does increased radiation of tropic waters affect the water?

49. What are ﬁve human activities that may harm coral reefs?

50. Which zone is located along the shoreline of the world ocean?

51. The neritic zone accounts for about what percent of the ocean?

52. As a result of evaporation, what are two characteristics of waters near the equator?

53. (T/F) The ecology of the coral reefs is unique and stable.

54. The intertidal zone alternates between two periods?

55. What is the region between the edge of the continental shelf and the low tidemark?

56. What type reefs are formed in the colder waters?

57. What are three substances that may cause damage to coral reefs as a result of runoff?

58. How do the answers from #57 affect the coral reefs?

59. What are the two types of productive neritic ecosystems that make it the most productive part of the

ocean?

60. Coral reefs can be compared to what terrestrial biome and why?

61. Do edges of continents drop off suddenly into the ocean?

62. Organisms of the intertidal zones must be able to survive and withstand what three conditions?

63. Coral reefs are not only important to ocean organisms but what else?

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