Posted on 25 October 2012. Tags: backreef, crepuscular, dawn and dusk, dive, Environments, forage, forereef, grey reef, niche, pelagic zone, Reef, reef sharks, social behaviors
Grey reef sharks are crepuscular so they are most active at dawn and dusk. They specialize in foraging at depths below 20 meters in both forereef and backreef environments. Grey reef sharks will leave the reef at night to forage in the pelagic zone and dive to grater depths. For the most part resting, foraging and any possible social behaviors all occur in close to the reef.
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Posted on 20 May 2011. Tags: arid, atmosphere, biology questions, extinction of species, frogs in a pond, gases in the atmosphere, greenhouse, greenhouse gases, lava flow, layer, nitrogen gases, pelagic zone, ponds edge, scientific discipline, surface
(1) deserts are defined as areas with which of the following characteristics?
-arid conditions
-high temperature
-lack of vegetation
-all of the above
(2) The ___ is the population size that can be maintained given a certain number of limiting factors?
-carrying capacity
-limit level
-niche
-population density
(3) which of the following describes organisms in a pelagic zone?
-plankton floating near the ocean surface
-botton-dwellers on the ocean floor
-barnacles glued to stone in an intertidal zone
-frogs in a pond close to the ponds edge
(4) which of the following is not an example of secondary sucession?
-farmland is abandoned
-a forest is clear cut
-a lava flow covers the landscape
-a wildfire burns away the vegetation on a hillside
(5) in a lake, the epilimnion is the?
-environment found close to shore in a lake
-environment found at the lake bed
-lower, colder layer
-upper surface layer
(6) groundwater located in permeable layers of rock is a/an?
-reservoir
-aquifer
-artesian
-aquiclude
(7) greenhouse gases include which of these?
-carbon dioxide
-nitrous oxide
-methane
-all of these
(8) if nothing is done to control the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, global temperature is expected to?
-rise
-droop
-even off
-fluctuate randonly
(9) oxygen and nitrogen gases comprise ___% of the atmosphere by volume
-21
-50
-78
-99
(10) ___ is a scientific discipline that devolops practical approaches to preven extinction of species and destruction of ecosystems?
-ecology
-environmentalism
-conservation biology
-biogeography
(11) increases in greenhouse gases cause increases in global temperature because these gases are able to trap heat rerafiated from earth’s surface?
-true
-false
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