AICE Marine Science Classification and Biodiversity

The classification of the species within living organisms from domain to species.

• Taxonomic hierarchy

• Binomial nomenclature

• Dichotomous key

• Kingdoms

Smaller and less deep bodies of seawater that are partially enclosed by land.

• ocean

• eddies

• sea

• gulf

A marine invertebrate group with pentaradial symmetry and tube feet.

• crustaceans

• bony fish

• zooplankton

• echinoderms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A marine invertebrate group with a hard skeleton, ten jointed legs and a nauplius larval stage

• crustaceans

• zooplankton

• echinoderm

• bony fish

An organism that plays a unique and crucial role in the way an ecosystem functions

• domain

• phylum

• kingdom

• keystone species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the economic importance of macroalgae?

• food industry

• cosmetics

• fertilizer

• aquaculture

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

A measure of the species, genetic and ecosystem diversity of different species

• biodiversity

• species diversity

• genetic diversity

• ecological diversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

A method to estimate the population size of mobile species

• Lincoln index

• frame quadrat

• Simpson index

• Spearman rank

The number of species in a community

• evenness

• population

• richness

• family

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which key group of marine organisms does belong in?

• zooplankton

• macroalgae

• echinoderm

• crustacean

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-2