Investigating Oceanography 2nd Edition By Keith Sverdrup – Test Bank

Chapter 11 Test Bank Key

1. Sea cucumbers must drink seawater to set up a concentration gradient and prevent dehydration.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 2. Understand
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain how different groups of organisms adapt to different regions of the ocean.
Section: 11.05 Facts of Life in the Ocean
Topic: Facts of Life in the Ocean

2. Salmon spawn in seawater and Atlantic eels spawn in fresh water.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain how different groups of organisms adapt to different regions of the ocean.
Section: 11.05 Facts of Life in the Ocean
Topic: Facts of Life in the Ocean

3. Microorganisms are more impacted by viscosity than gravity.

TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 2. Understand
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the relationship between organism size and abundance.
Section: 11.03 The Importance of Size
Topic: The Importance of Size

4. On average, the individual cells that make up a whale are thousands of times larger than the individual cells that make up a small marine worm.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 2. Understand
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the relationship between organism size and abundance.
Section: 11.03 The Importance of Size
Topic: The Importance of Size

5. Autotrophs do not respire.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 2. Understand
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain the differences and similarities between chemosynthesis and photosynthesis.
Section: 11.02 The Flow of Energy
Topic: The Flow of Energy

6. Bioluminescence is commonly used to avoid being eaten.

TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 2. Understand
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain how different groups of organisms adapt to different regions of the ocean.
Section: 11.05 Facts of Life in the Ocean
Topic: Facts of Life in the Ocean

7. Sunlight usually penetrates to a greater depth in coastal waters than in the open sea.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 2. Understand
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain how different groups of organisms adapt to different regions of the ocean.
Section: 11.05 Facts of Life in the Ocean
Topic: Facts of Life in the Ocean

8. Both light energy and inorganic nutrient concentrations are highest in the surface waters and decrease with depth.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain how different groups of organisms adapt to different regions of the ocean.
Section: 11.05 Facts of Life in the Ocean
Topic: Facts of Life in the Ocean

9. Countershaded fish usually have a dark back and a light undersurface.

TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain how different groups of organisms adapt to different regions of the ocean.
Section: 11.05 Facts of Life in the Ocean
Topic: Facts of Life in the Ocean

10. Taxonomy is the scientific classification of the ocean’s environmental zones.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 2. Understand
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain the relationship among evolution, taxonomy, and phylogeny.
Section: 11.01 Evolution in the Marine Environment
Topic: Evolution in the Marine Environment

11. Oxygen concentrations are lowest in the deepest parts of the ocean.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain how different groups of organisms adapt to different regions of the ocean.
Section: 11.05 Facts of Life in the Ocean
Topic: Facts of Life in the Ocean

12. Most fish species are easily able to tolerate a large range of salinities.

FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 11 The Living Ocean
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain how different groups of organisms adapt to different regions of the ocean.
Section: 11.05 Facts of Life in the Ocean
Topic: Facts of Life in the Ocean