Marine Science Help please?

[barraq]

1. Large ships that remove and process huge amounts of fish each year are called:

long-liners
local fishing fleets
super-trawlers
super-barges.


2. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management defines fish as


fin-fish, mollusks, crustaceans, and all other forms of plant life including marine mammals and birds.
one or more stocks of fish in an area.
marine life which is harvested for sale.
finfish, mollusks, crustaceans, and all other forms of plant life other than marine mammals and birds.

Match the marine mammal with its appropriate classification.

a. sea lions
b. true seals
c. walruses
d. river otters
e. polar bears


3. Family Mustelidea

4. Family Otariidae

5. Family Ursidae

6. Family Phocidae

7. Family Obodenibae

8. How would you describe kelp?

a plant that grows in shallow water
an alga that grows along rocky coastlines
a plant that grows deep in the ocean
an alga that grows at the water's edge

9. Sea otters play an important role in maintaining the sea urchin population in the kelp forest. The sea otter is known as a

keystone species.
key species.
checking species.
controlling species.

Match the kelp forest organism with its place in the forest.

a. sea otter
b. brittle stars
c. cup corals

10. along fonds and stalks

11. canopy

12. around holdfasts


13. Algae products can be found in

vegetable soup.
frosting.
peanut butter.
pickles.

14. One adaptation that is unique to marine mammals is that they

are warm blooded.
breathe air.
have live young.
can direct blood flow to their vital organs.

15. One reason it is against the law to feed wilds dolphins is that

dolphins that eat too much will not be healthy.
feeding wild dolphins disrupts their social groups which threatens their ability to survive.
dolphins are endangered species and are not allowed to be touched.
the government does not want dolphins to interfere with swimmers.

[sampson]

really?? are you really that lazy???
just open your book and do the work. it comes with a reward, its called character...