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| organisms that live on the bottom |
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| those that drift with the currents |
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| those able to swim against the currents |
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| seperation of the water column into layers, with the desest, coldest water at the bottom, which prevents the mixing of the nutrient-rich deep water with the less dense, warm upper layer. |
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| sediment that comes from the physical or chemical breakdown of the rocks on land |
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| sediment composed if the skeletons and shells of marine organisms |
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| the transformation of onestage of a life cycle into another, as when a larva changes into a juvenile |
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| organisms that can create organic matter from co2 usually by photsynthesis |
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| particles of dead organic matter |
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| animals that feed on organic matter that settles in the sediment |
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| animals, including filter feeders, that feed on particles suspended in the water column |
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| pertaining to the water column away from the bottom or other structure |
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| the tropical indian and western and central pacific oceans |
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| the total weight of living organisms |
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| conversion of nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that can be used by primary producers as nutrients |
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| those that grow as a thin layer over rocks, such as some of the coraline algae |
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| winds in the northern indian ocean that bloww fromt he southwest in summer but from the northeast in the winter |
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| the upward flow of cold, nutrient-rich deep water to the surface |
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| the combination of what a species eats, where it lives, how it behaves, and all the other aspects of its lifestyle |
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| a warming of the surface water int eh eastern pacific, part of large-scale changes in atmospheric and ocean current patterns, or ENSO |
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| a cooling trend of the surface water int he eastern pacific |
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