Oceanography First 9 Weeks Review Game

The relationship between tubeworms and chemosynthetic bacteria can best be described as symbiotic?

• True

• False

"Black smokers" besides being biological providing a biological oasis in the ocean bottom are also a potential source of rich mineral ore deposits

• True

• False

There is a type of clam that is associated with both Vents and Seeps. It uses specialized bacteria that it let colonize it's body when it was young. When cracked open what color does the clam muscle look like and why.

• Blue, lack of O2

• Black, too much licorice in the water

• Red, sulfur and iron compounds in the water

• Bio-luminescent pink, because it wants to blend into its dark surrounding

"Black smokers" besides being biological providing a biological oasis in the ocean bottom are also a potential source of rich mineral ore deposits

• True

• False

Organisms living in and around hydrothermal vents get their food energy from

• Sun

• Green plants

• photosynthesis

• Chemosynthesis

The margin where tectonic plates pull apart are referred to in geologic terms as

• convergent boundary

• divergent boundary

• continental drift boundaries

• chalk boundaries

Chemosynthetic bacteria use what compounds in the specialized environment for energy to produce food?

• NaCl

• Sulfur

• Nitrogen

• Iron

The longest mountain system on earth is called________, and is below sea level.

• Himalayas.

• Rocky Mountains.

• Alps.

• Mid-Oceanic Ridge.

Which of the following is not likely to be a part of the vents environment?

• high pressure.

• temperature extremes .

• low pressure.

The deep ocean environment is generally low in oxygen because of its proximity from the sources of this gas. (the atmosphere and photic zone).

• True

• False