Plankton and Bay Tools Ashenfelter Marine Ecology

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Across
  1. 7. this nutrient can enter via run-off from farms, detergents, or sewage
  2. 9. this disk helps to determine the visibility in the water
  3. 12. plankton that are only planktonic in early stages
  4. 13. almost all of these animals without backbones start their lives as plankton
  5. 16. a ______ zone is an area devoid of oxygen due to an algal bloom
  6. 17. these are how plankton are collected
  7. 19. plankton form the base of the food _____
  8. 20. this line can determine depth of water - used extensively before SONAR
  9. 21. this nutrient can enter via run-off from farms or sewage
  10. 23. this bottle is meant to collect water samples at different depths - this year we lost ours into the bay!
  11. 24. plankton that are planktonic their whole lives
  12. 27. group of phytoplankton more associated with harmful algal blooms
  13. 28. this is how we currently measure salinity, its about electrical current flow
Down
  1. 1. cold water ____ brings nutrients that feed phytoplankton
  2. 2. large/long colonial gelatinous animals
  3. 3. we used a crab trap that is a type of ___ - it tangles up the crab's legs
  4. 4. this tool tells salinity using the water density
  5. 5. animal like plankton
  6. 6. phytoplankton more than 50% of the worlds ____ to the water and air which we need to breathe
  7. 8. these are just amazing, often large, zooplankton
  8. 9. how we image plankton from space
  9. 10. a very common zooplankton, plankton from spongebob
  10. 11. this color scale can tell us about the sediment, phytoplankton, or other in the water
  11. 14. causing plankton to have a tough time shell building, caused from CO2 entering ocean
  12. 15. the word plankton means ____
  13. 18. plankton that photosynthesize
  14. 22. due to phytoplankton the ocean is a carbon _____
  15. 24. caused when dinoflagellates release biotoxins into the water
  16. 25. how we collect plankton to ID species in the water
  17. 26. the disk used to measure visibility