Plankton - Overview Review

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  1. 4. the word plankton means ____
  2. 5. this word is used in biology to mean an organism that can photosynthesize or chemosynthesize
  3. 6. plankton form the base of the food _____
  4. 8. how we image phytoplankton from space, can tell us what photosynthetic pigments are present
  5. 12. plankton that are planktonic their whole lives
  6. 13. a ______ zone is an area devoid of oxygen due to an algal bloom
  7. 14. ___ acid is a toxin released by Pseudo-nitzschia in a HAB
  8. 15. this word means an organism that eats other organisms for energy
  9. 18. causing plankton to have a tough time shell building, caused from CO2 entering ocean
  10. 20. most species in the ocean are planktonic when they are _______
  11. 21. cold water ____ brings nutrients that allow phytoplankton to thrive
  12. 23. phytoplankton do this in the presence of sunlight
  13. 26. this color scale can tell us about the sediment, phytoplankton, or other in the water
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  1. 1. plankton that photosynthesize
  2. 2. plankton that are only planktonic in early stages
  3. 3. group of phytoplankton more associated with harmful algal blooms, many have two flagella
  4. 7. _______"a"is the photosynthetic pigment in plants and in algaes
  5. 9. animal like plankton
  6. 10. caused when phytoplankton release biotoxins into the water
  7. 11. almost all of these animals without backbones start their lives as plankton
  8. 16. phytoplankton more than 50% of the worlds ____ to the water and air which we need to breathe
  9. 17. ____ are important for phytoplankton growth, but an overabundance from farm runoff can cause a bloom
  10. 19. a very common zooplankton, plankton from spongebob
  11. 22. these are how plankton are collected, we did this method
  12. 24. the disk used to measure visibility, often tells us about algal levels
  13. 25. due to phytoplankton the ocean is a carbon _____