Ocean
10 West Valley College
Oceanography R.
Lopez
Study
Questions:
Diversity and
Organization of Life
1)
What
are the two attributes essential to life?
2)
Kingdoms
are the largest groupings for life.
What three criteria is used to classify the different Kingdoms?
3)
What
is the difference between a prokaryote and eukaryote cell?
4)
What
are the two basic modes of nutrition?
5)
Identify
the six Kingdoms as well as the general type of organisms, types of cell,
number of cells, and mode of nutrition for each Kingdom. (Complete the chart
below)
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TYPE OF CELLS |
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6)
What
are the six Kingdoms of life?
7)
What
two criteria are used to group organisms into a phylum?
8)
What
is the difference between phylogeny and cladistics (cladograms)?
16)
What
are the two forms of life in the Kingdom Protista?
17)
What
is the difference between phytoplankton and zooplankton?
18)
What
are the three types of phytoplankton?
19)
Know
the characteristics of diatoms, dinoflagellates, and coccolithophores (e.g.,
know which one secretes silica or calcium carbonate from seawater; which one
form a siliceous vs. calcareous ooze; which one does not form an ooze?).
20)
What
are the two main types of zooplankton discussed in class?
21)
Which
one forms siliceous oozes that eventually form the sedimentary rock chert, and
which one forms the calcareous oozes that eventually form the sedimentary rock
called limestone?
22)
What
are the Eubacteria?
23)
What
are the two main categories in the Kingdom Animalia?
24)
What
are the two criteria used to distinguish the phyla of invertebrates?
25)
What
are the general characteristics of the phylum porifera (sponges)?
26)
What
are the organisms discussed in class that belong the phylum Cnidaria?
27)
What
are the general characteristics of the phylum Cnidaria?
28)
What
is the difference between a medusa and a polyp?
29)
Do
Cnidarians have an anus for expulsion of waste?
30)
How
do corals differ from jelly fish?
31)
What
is the one characteristic that all Mollusks share?
32)
Know
the general characteristics of the classes gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods,
polyplacophora groups.
33)
What
are nautiloids and amminoids?
34)
Name
the members of the phylum echinodermata.
35)
What
are the characteristics of echinoderms?
36)
Know
the three classes of arthropods and be able to name at least three animals of
this phylum.
37)
What
are the characteristics of the phylum Arthropoda?
38)
Crustaceans
are the main type of arthropod living in the sea? Give some examples of crustaceans.
39)
What
are the two main classes of chordates?
40)
What
is a notochord (hemichordates).
41)
What
are the four common features of all chordates?
42)
What
are the four common features of vertebrate chordates?