To survive: Attend lectures, take notes, study the powerpoints, learn definitions of terms below
To thrive: Attend lectures, take notes, study the powerpoints, read the textbook, learn definitions, actively listen and engage in lectures, understand concepts, synthesize your knowledge. Exam format:
Answer all questions, all Multiple Choice
40 Questions, 50 minutes (1 minute per question, 10 minutes thinking time)
2.5 points each, this exam 100 total point. Lecture 14: erosion; eolian; fluvial; grain size; erosion of clays, sands ,gravels, ripples and currents, abiogenic versus biogenic; how clasts move, grain size and distance from the continents, erosion, transport, deposition, suspended load, saltation, delta. …show more content…
Q. Which of the following describes the ease of sediment erosion, from least energy (ie fluid velocity) to most energy required
a) Boulders, pebbles, sand, clay
b) Boulders, clay, sand, pebbles
c) Sand, clay, pebbles, boulders
d) Clay, sand, pebbles, boulders
e) Erosional competence and fluid velocity are unrelated
Q.
In the diagram below, corresponding to ripples in a geological outcrop, the paleo‐current was moving in which direction?
Lecture 15: CCD or marine snowline, diatoms, coccoliths, radiolarians, foraminifera, manganese nodules, bloom, silica, carbonate, law of superposition, ocean sediments as paleoclimate records.
Q. What is ‘the snowline’ of the ocean? Lecture 16: beaches, barrier islands, pocket beaches, headlands, stacks, arches, caves, wave cut notch, longshore drift, groin, spit, berm, low tide, high tide, breaker zone, swash zone, backshore, foreshore, offshore, seasonality of wave energy, seasonality of sediment inputs, wave cut platform, marine terraces, supratidal, intertidal, subtidal, mudflats.
Q. Beaches most likely to form along coastlines with outcrops of resistant rock are called? Lecture 17: delta, estuary, lagoon, Nile delta, Ganges delta, Mississippi delta, wave/river/tidal dominated, fjord, Norway, Chesapeake bay, San Francisco Bay, drowned river valley, drowned …show more content…
glacial valley, tectonic subsidence, estuarine circulation, lagoon/anti‐estuary circulation, Mediterranean.
Q. The Mediterranean Sea has what type of circulation? Lecture 18: Tides, Sun, Moon, centrifugal, forced waves, low tide, high tide, spring tide, neap tide, lunar day, Bay of Fundy, tidal range, tidal period, regional differences in tides, tides and fauna, grunion, tidal
energy.
Lecture 19: autotrophs, heterotrophs, primary producer, consumer, predator, plants, animals, photosynthesis, organic material, inorganic material, carbon, carbohydrates, chlorophyll, nutrients, limiting Q.The forward and reverse reactions of the following equation describes what processes:
CO2 + H2O = nCH2O + O2
Lecture 20: classification (morphology & genetics basis), Linnaeus, eukaryote, prokaryote, invertebrate, vertebrate, littoral, pelagic, euphotic, photic, aphotic, abyssal, biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, archaea, extremophiles, issues with studying microbes (small!), we are eukaryotes, wer are just discovering the incredible diversity of prokaryotes/microbes (archaea, bacteria) with genetic tools. Lecture 21: trophic levels, food chains, food web, biomass, biomagnifications, phytoplankton, diatoms, coccoliths, dinoflagellates, red tides, zooplankton, heterotrophs, foraminifera, copepods, Example food chain: diatom, copepod, anchovy, tuna,
human. Lecture 22: pelagic, distribution of biomass in the ocean, vertical distribution of primary producers, herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, plankton, nekton, benthic, detritus, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore, planton net, factors controlling phytoplankton growth (which might be limiting), phytoplankton, zooplankton, strategies for survival, diel vertical migration, echolocation, streamlined, swim bladder, bony fish, cartiligenous fish. Lecture 23: environmental conditions environments in the deep sea, hydrothermal vent communities, epifaunal, infaunal, sessile, cephalopods eg squid, ROV, submersible, chemosynthetic bacteria are the primary producers at hydrothermal vents (but you don’t need to know the equations!), giant vent clams in the Pacific, eyeless shrimp in the Atlantic, life is everywhere that we have looked for it including in the rocks of the ocean crust. Lecture 24: Eutrophication, anoxia, Marine Protected Areas, class discussion of Santa Monica Basin proposed MPA, kelp forest ecosystems, sea urchins and otters, deposit feeders, filter feeders, high to low wave energy environments, know that environments and communities vary across rocky, sandy and muddy ecosystems (don’t need to know names of organisms). Lecture 25: tropical distribution of coral reefs, coral reef biodiversity West Pacific example, factors inhibiting/promoting coral reefs, corals, symbionts, zooxanthelae, coral bleaching, massive corals, coral morphology and wave energy, fringing reefs, barrier reefs, atolls, Charles Darwin and reef succession, subsidence due to crustal cooling, local stresses on reefs, global stresses on reefs, ocean acidification, turbidity, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Lecture 26: whales, mammals, baleen, toothed, echolocation, feeding strategies, ship kills, body size
(blue whale largest), migration, endangered, genetics.