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15.2 – The Diversity of Ocean Life

15.2 – The Diversity of Ocean Life. Do Now. How are marine organisms classified?. Do Now. How are marine organisms classified? According to where they live and how they move. Key Words. Marine Propulsion. Vocab Words. Benthos Nekton Plankton. Classification of Marine Organisms.

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15.2 – The Diversity of Ocean Life

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  1. 15.2 – The Diversity of Ocean Life

  2. Do Now • How are marine organisms classified?

  3. Do Now • How are marine organisms classified? • According to where they live and how they move.

  4. Key Words • Marine • Propulsion

  5. Vocab Words • Benthos • Nekton • Plankton

  6. Classification of Marine Organisms • Marine organisms can be classified according to where they live and how they move. • Plankton • Nekton • Benthos

  7. Plankton • Plankton include all organisms—algae, animals, and bacteria—that drift with ocean currents. They are also known as drifters. • Planktos = “wandering”

  8. Plankton • Phytoplankton - are algae plankton, which are the most important community of primary producers in the ocean. They undergo photosynthesis. They are microscopic. Ex: Diatom • Zooplankton - are animal plankton. Include the larval stages of marine organisms. Such as fish, crab, shrimp, etc.

  9. Nekton • Include all animals capable of moving independently of the ocean currents, by swimming or other means of propulsion. • Includes most adult whale, squid, shark and fish.

  10. Benthos • Describes all organisms living on or in the ocean bottom. • Most benthos organisms can be found in shallow intertidal zone.

  11. Marine Life Zones Three factors are used to divide the ocean into distinct marine life zones: the availability of sunlight, the distance from shore, and the water depth.

  12. Availability of Sunlight The photic zone is the upper part of the ocean into which sunlight penetrates. The aphotic zone is the lower part of the ocean into which no sunlight exists.

  13. Distance from Shore The intertidal zone is the strip of land where the land and ocean meet and overlap, or the zone between high and low tides. The neritic zone is the marine-life zone that extends from the low-tide line out to the shelf break. The oceanic zone is the marine-life zone beyond the continental shelf.

  14. Water Depth The pelagic zone is open zone of any depth. Animals in this zone swim or float freely. The benthic zone is the marine-life zone that includes any sea-bottom surface regardless of its distance from shore. The abyssal zone is a subdivision of the benthic zone characterized by extremely high pressures, low temperatures, low oxygen, few nutrients, and no sunlight.

  15. Hydrothermal Vents Here seawater seeps into the ocean floor through cracks in the crust. At some vents, water temperatures of 100oC or higher support communities of organisms found nowhere else in the world.

  16. Group Challenge Question It has been observed that some species of zooplankton migrate vertically in ocean water. They spend the daylight hours at deeper depths of about 200 meters and at night move to the surface. Formulate a hypothesis that might explain this behavior.

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