Oceanography Chap. 13 Vocab Test

the capacity to do work

• energy

• biomass

• carbon cycle

• zone

The ocean between about 4000 and 5000 meters deep

• abyssal zone

• bathyal zone

• pelagic zone

• photic zone

an inheritable structural or behavioral modification.

• adaptation

• evolution

• autotroph

• hypertonic

The synthesis of organic compounds from inorganic compounds using energy stored in inorganic substances such as sulfur, ammonia, and hydrogen

• chemosynthesis

• diffusion

• carbon cycle

• biogeochemical cycle

the evolution of similar characteristics in organisms of different ancestry

• convergent evolution

• evolution

• mutation

• hierarchy

the zone of the ocean bottom

• benthic zone

• sublittoral zone

• photic zone

• abyssal zone

bacteria capable of converting nitrite or nitrate to gaseous nitrogen

• denitrifying bacteria

• dissolved organic nitrogen

• nitrogen cycle

• osmosis

the lower part of the photic zone, where there is insufficient light for photosynthesis

• disphotic zone

• abyssal zone

• photic zone

• bathyal zone

Organic molecules dissolved in water

• dissolved organic carbon

• dissolved organic nitrogen

marine organisms that are "cold blooded"

• exothermic

• ectothermic

• endothermic