HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO OUR "QD"s

1. Many corals have a mutualistic relationship with zooxanthellae.
2. See page 69 in your book (**also,check out the link below).
3. The most important element a plant needs to photosynthesis is light.
4. The earth rotates East.
5. The organism that can conforms its salinity in its bodily fluids to its environment is an osmoconformer.
6. Gamets are haploid cells and therefore contain only half the chromosomes the rest of the cells in the body contain.
7. The thermocline is a transitional layer in the water column between the warmer latyer on top and the colder layer below. It is found in the open ocean away from the continental shelf ranging in depth from 660 to 5,000 feet.
8. It takes a great deal of energy to change the temperature of water because water has a very large specific heat.
9. A prokaryotic is the simplest and smallest cell. It has no membrane-bound organelles and organisms made up of these cells are called prokaryotes. We call them bacteria.
A eukaryotic cell has many membrane-bound organelles that perfom many complex functions. Organisms made up of these cells are called eukaryotes.
10. Blue-green algae should really be called cynobacteria . Algae are eukaryotic, but blue-green algae are not, they are prokaryotic.

See you all on Friday!

**Here is an additional link on Alteration of Generation I think you will find helpful.
http://www.bio.miami.edu/dana/dox/altgen.html

WELCOME!
Fellow Sea Life Explorers to our new blog!

Be sure to check this blog throughout the year. I will be including links to special websites, pictures of the incredible creatures and habitates God has created and of course pictures of you too.

In addition, I will be posting announcements of upcoming events, class info and some of our handouts.

See you all Friday!

 

Here is a link for the Coriolis Effect that's pretty cool!

http://www.suu.edu/faculty/colberg/hazards/weather/34_Coriolis.html 

This site also has links for weather and wind movements.

http://www.suu.edu/faculty/colberg/hazards/weather/weather.htm

 

                This link takes you to a site that discusses seawater movement.



            http://www.marinebio.net/marinescience/02ocean/swmovement.htm

 

                Here is a link to the Tidepool guide from Monterey Bay Aquarium

                      http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/Default.asp