Quiz 10 OCE 4008 Final Exam Study Guide

____ 1. Which plankton are considered microplankton?

____ 2. What is the smallest form of plankton?

____ 3. What makes light absorption in diatoms more effective than just using chlorophyll?

____ 4. What kind of plankton remains planktonic for its entire life?

____ 5. What can hinder photosynthetic productivity in the open ocean?

____ 6. Why are marine viruses important?

____ 7. Virus types include all of the following except:

____ 8. On average there are __ times more viruses as prokaryotic cells in the biosphere.

____ 9. What is the most productive photosynthetic plankton apart from Cyanobacteria?

____ 10. What is a frustule?

____ 11. What is usually responsible for a harmful algal bloom?

____ 12. What do researchers use to directly measure the rate of productivity?

____ 13. What new method is being used to calculate productivity by estimating the chlorophyll?

____ 14. Where is phytoplankton the most productive?

____ 15. What season does phytoplankton peak in the northern temperate zone?

____ 16. In the ocean, viral abundance __________ further offshore and __________ steadily below the thermocline.

____ 17. The hypothesis that more abundant bacteria are more likely to become infected by viruses is referred it as:

____ 18. A highly biological productive ocean surface appears chalky; what plankton is likely successful here?

Measuring biomass is not efficient in calculating primary productivity because dense areas can have lower productivity

____ 20. After a plankton bloom, nonconservative nutrients are produced in high levels.